そのため情報が古い可能性があります。ご了承ください。m(_ _)m
WWW::Mechanize – search.cpan.org
WWW::Mechanize, or Mch for short, is a perl module for stateful programmatic web browsing, used for automating interaction with websites.
Features include:
- All HTTP methods
- High-level hyperlink and HTML form support, without having to parse HTML yourself
- ssl support
- Automatic cookies
- Custom HTTP headers
- Automatic handling of redirections
- Proxies
- HTTP authentication
Mech supports performing a sequence of page fetches including following links and submitting forms. Each fetched page is parsed and its links and forms are extracted. A link or a form can be selected, form fields can be filled and the next page can be fetched. Mech also stores a history of the URLs you've visited, which can be queried and revisited.
websiteとの対話を自動化するモジュール。
RSSフィード配信サービスを利用していると手動で指定先へ送信するのは無料だけど、定期的に指定先へ送信するのは有料みたいなのがよくある。（例えば、kindlefeeder.comとか）
そういうサービスも、Mechanize使ってスクリプト書いて、cronで回せば無料で定期的に送信可能。
kindlefeeder.comだと
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = new WWW::Mechanize( autocheck => 1, agent => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US)' );
$mech->get('http://kindlefeeder.com/users/xxxxx');
# login
$mech->submit_form(
fields => {
login => 'username',
password => 'passwd',
},
);
# submit
my $response = $mech->submit_form(
form_number => 2,
);
みたいな感じで。まぁ、ページの内容が変わると、その都度対応必要だけど。