On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:43:50AM +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >elinks, links, links2 and do the following. > >1. Open a certain web page and find the first text box on the page, and > >put this text into the form. > >2. Press the submit button, and wait for the result page to load. > >3. Click on the 15th link down the page. > > > >So, how do I do this, can anyone point me to some docs or modules that > >may help out here? > > Use the module "mechanize". It will mimic a browser, and allows you > to navigate to pages, fill in forms & submit them.
Well, what seemed a very daunting task at first, proved to be quite easy, after a little bit of research. Thanks very much, I've written my script, and it works correctly, using the mechanize module. Thanks for everyone's help -- Cheers, Dan http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
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