With all the help I've received I've been able to get this working. This is my
text:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTML::TokeParser;
my $username = 'msnyder';
my $password = 'xxxxxxx';
my $status = 'open';
my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$agent->get('https://rt.ops.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/');
$agent->submit_form(
form_name => 'login',
fields => {
'user' => $username,
'pass' => $password,
}
);
$agent->follow_link(text => "Tickets");
$agent->submit_form(
form_name => 'BuildQuery',
fields => {
'ValueOfStatus' => $status,
'ValueOfActor' => $username,
},
button => 'DoSearch'
);
my $data = $agent->content();
print $data;
What this will do is return to me HTML source with a list of work tickets and
all pertinent, associated data. The purpose of setting this up is to allow me
to pull out email addresses of any work ticket created as a result of spam.
For anyone not familiar with Request Tracker from Best Practical Solutions, the
'from' email address on any incoming email received by Request Tracker is
automatically turned into a user account. With the amount of spam flying around
the the Net these days those user accounts add up.
All those spam tickets are assigned to me so I can eliminate them and the users
created as a result of them from our database. My goal is to parse $data to
pull out all the email addresses which I will then sift through to remove any
legitimate addresses.
You'll notice I declare the use of HTML::TokeParser. This leads to my next
question. Do I need to use that? Would it be simpler to just parse the data
matching against a regex and put any matches into a file? I imagine I don't
need to sift through all the HTML tags just to get to the email addresses since
they are fairly easy to spot.
Mathew
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