RE: perl to web-scrape an html page that requires 'Javascript' to fully render

2013-02-15 Thread Ken Cornetet
Use OLE to drive IE and scrape the results. Here's a snippet of code that I used years ago to check warrantee expiration on a list of HP servers. The HP web page used javascript and redirections before finally ending up on the page with the data. my $parms = 'country=US&' .

Re: perl to web-scrape an html page that requires 'Javascript' to fullyrender

2013-02-15 Thread sisyphus1
Hi Greg, This is one of the many things that I don’t know much about. My first thought was WWW::Mechanize might be the way to go, but I found this in the WWW::Mechanize documentation: [quote] Please note that Mech does NOT support JavaScript, you need additional software for that. Please check "