On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:54:26AM -0800, Luke Bakken wrote:
> > I want to login to a site through scripts and retreive data. I was doing
> > it till now through expect and lynx text browser's ability to record a
> > session and run the commands.
> >
> > I think it's possible through perl and it's numerous modules. Can anyone
> > point me as to how it may be done.
>
> LWP::UserAgent is what you're looking for.
>
Thanks for the input. One thing I forgot to mention was that the site
uses javascript which caused me to turn to perl as lynx does not support
it.
Regards!
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