[Chicago-talk] Downloading a file via WWW::Mechanize

Alex axs at m-net.arbornet.org
Sun Oct 3 22:57:53 CDT 2004


add another $mech->submit_form() after the first one

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Strauss" <me at heyjay.com>
To: "Chicago.pm chatter" <chicago-talk at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] Downloading a file via WWW::Mechanize


> Andy Lester wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> I know your trying to help.  But all the examples, the cookbook, the 
> >> docs talk about having a url to get.  I'm not doing a "get", I'm 
> >> doing a "post".  I can't supply |:content_file option.|
> >
> >
> > And once you post, and it sends you a file back, it's in your 
> > $agent->content.  Write that out to a file.
> >
> > xoa
> >
> Isn't that what I'm doing with my original posting of my code??
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use WWW::Mechanize;
> my $url = "http://www.cboe.com/DelayedQuote/QuoteTableDownload.aspx";
> 
> my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
> $mech->get( $url );
> 
> my $res = $mech->submit_form(
>        form_number => 1,
>        fields => {ticker => 'QQQ'},
>        );
> 
> print $mech->content;
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