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text => 'string', and text_regex => qr/regex/,url => 'string', and url_regex => qr/regex/,url_abs => string and url_abs_regex => regexname => string and name_regex => regexid => string and id_regex => regexclass => string and class_regex => regextag => string and tag_regex => regex
WWW::Mechanize - Handy web browsing in a Perl object
Version 1.66
WWW::Mechanize, or Mech for short, is a Perl module for stateful
programmatic web browsing, used for automating interaction with
websites.
Features include:
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.
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get( $url );
$mech->follow_link( n => 3 );
$mech->follow_link( text_regex => qr/download this/i );
$mech->follow_link( url => 'http://host.com/index.html' );
$mech->submit_form(
form_number => 3,
fields => {
username => 'mungo',
password => 'lost-and-alone',
}
);
$mech->submit_form(
form_name => 'search',
fields => { query => 'pot of gold', },
button => 'Search Now'
);
Mech is well suited for use in testing web applications. If you use one of the Test::*, like Test::HTML::Lint modules, you can check the fetched content and use that as input to a test call.
use Test::More;
like( $mech->content(), qr/$expected/, "Got expected content" );
Each page fetch stores its URL in a history stack which you can traverse.
$mech->back();
If you want finer control over your page fetching, you can use
these methods. follow_link and submit_form are just high
level wrappers around them.
$mech->find_link( n => $number );
$mech->form_number( $number );
$mech->form_name( $name );
$mech->field( $name, $value );
$mech->set_fields( %field_values );
$mech->set_visible( @criteria );
$mech->click( $button );
WWW::Mechanize is a proper subclass of LWP::UserAgent and you can also use any of LWP::UserAgent's methods.
$mech->add_header($name => $value);
Please note that Mech does NOT support JavaScript. Please check the FAQ in WWW::Mechanize::FAQ for more.
The queue for bugs & enhancements in WWW::Mechanize and Test::WWW::Mechanize. Please note that the queue at http://rt.cpan.org is no longer maintained.
The CPAN documentation page for Mechanize.
Frequently asked questions. Make sure you read here FIRST.
Creates and returns a new WWW::Mechanize object, hereafter referred to as the "agent".
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new()
The constructor for WWW::Mechanize overrides two of the parms to the LWP::UserAgent constructor:
agent => 'WWW-Mechanize/#.##'
cookie_jar => {} # an empty, memory-only HTTP::Cookies object
You can override these overrides by passing parms to the constructor, as in:
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( agent => 'wonderbot 1.01' );
If you want none of the overhead of a cookie jar, or don't want your bot accepting cookies, you have to explicitly disallow it, like so:
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( cookie_jar => undef );
Here are the parms that WWW::Mechanize recognizes. These do not include parms that LWP::UserAgent recognizes.
autocheck => [0|1]Checks each request made to see if it was successful. This saves you the trouble of manually checking yourself. Any errors found are errors, not warnings.
The default value is ON, unless it's being subclassed, in which case it is OFF. This means that standalone WWW::Mechanizeinstances have autocheck turned on, which is protective for the vast majority of Mech users who don't bother checking the return value of get() and post() and can't figure why their code fails. However, if WWW::Mechanize is subclassed, such as for Test::WWW::Mechanize or Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst, this may not be an appropriate default, so it's off.
noproxy => [0|1]Turn off the automatic call to the LWP::UserAgent env_proxy function.
This needs to be explicitly turned off if you're using Crypt::SSLeay to access a https site via a proxy server. Note: you still need to set your HTTPS_PROXY environment variable as appropriate.
onwarn => \&funcReference to a warn-compatible function, such as Carp::carp,
that is called when a warning needs to be shown.
If this is set to undef, no warnings will ever be shown. However,
it's probably better to use the quiet method to control that behavior.
If this value is not passed, Mech uses Carp::carp if Carp is
installed, or CORE::warn if not.
onerror => \&funcReference to a die-compatible function, such as Carp::croak,
that is called when there's a fatal error.
If this is set to undef, no errors will ever be shown.
If this value is not passed, Mech uses Carp::croak if Carp is
installed, or CORE::die if not.
quiet => [0|1]Don't complain on warnings. Setting quiet => 1 is the same as
calling $mech->quiet(1). Default is off.
stack_depth => $valueSets the depth of the page stack that keeps track of all the downloaded pages. Default is effectively infinite stack size. If the stack is eating up your memory, then set this to a smaller number, say 5 or 10. Setting this to zero means Mech will keep no history.
To support forms, WWW::Mechanize's constructor pushes POST
on to the agent's requests_redirectable list (see also
LWP::UserAgent.)
Sets the user agent string to the expanded version from a table of actual user strings. $alias can be one of the following:
then it will be replaced with a more interesting one. For instance,
$mech->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' );
sets your User-Agent to
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
The list of valid aliases can be returned from known_agent_aliases(). The current list is:
Returns a list of all the agent aliases that Mech knows about.
Given a URL/URI, fetches it. Returns an HTTP::Response object. $uri can be a well-formed URL string, a URI object, or a WWW::Mechanize::Link object.
The results are stored internally in the agent object, but you don't know that. Just use the accessors listed below. Poking at the internals is deprecated and subject to change in the future.
get() is a well-behaved overloaded version of the method in
LWP::UserAgent. This lets you do things like
$mech->get( $uri, ':content_file' => $tempfile );
and you can rest assured that the parms will get filtered down appropriately.
NOTE: Because :content_file causes the page contents to be
stored in a file instead of the response object, some Mech functions
that expect it to be there won't work as expected. Use with caution.
PUTs $content to $uri. Returns an HTTP::Response object. $uri can be a well-formed URI string, a URI object, or a WWW::Mechanize::Link object.
Acts like the reload button in a browser: repeats the current request. The history (as per the back method) is not altered.
Returns the HTTP::Response object from the reload, or undef
if there's no current request.
The equivalent of hitting the "back" button in a browser. Returns to the previous page. Won't go back past the first page. (Really, what would it do if it could?)
Returns true if it could go back, or false if not.
Returns a boolean telling whether the last request was successful. If there hasn't been an operation yet, returns false.
This is a convenience function that wraps $mech->res->is_success.
Returns the current URI as a URI object. This object stringifies to the URI itself.
Return the current response as an HTTP::Response object.
Synonym for $mech->response()
Returns the HTTP status code of the response. This is a 3-digit number like 200 for OK, 404 for not found, and so on.
Returns the content type of the response.
Returns the base URI for the current response
When called in a list context, returns a list of the forms found in the last fetched page. In a scalar context, returns a reference to an array with those forms. The forms returned are all HTML::Form objects.
Returns the current form as an HTML::Form object.
When called in a list context, returns a list of the links found in the last fetched page. In a scalar context it returns a reference to an array with those links. Each link is a WWW::Mechanize::Link object.
Returns true/false on whether our content is HTML, according to the HTTP headers.
Returns the contents of the <TITLE> tag, as parsed by
HTML::HeadParser. Returns undef if the content is not HTML.
Returns the content that the mech uses internally for the last page fetched. Ordinarily this is the same as $mech->response()->content(), but this may differ for HTML documents if update_html is overloaded (in which case the value passed to the base-class implementation of same will be returned), and/or extra named arguments are passed to content():
Returns a text-only version of the page, with all HTML markup stripped. This feature requires HTML::TreeBuilder to be installed, or a fatal error will be thrown.
Returns the HTML document, modified to contain a
<base href="$base_href"> mark-up in the header.
$base_href is $mech->base() if not specified. This is
handy to pass the HTML to e.g. HTML::Display.
Passing arguments to content() if the current document is not
HTML has no effect now (i.e. the return value is the same as
$self->response()->content(). This may change in the future,
but will likely be backwards-compatible when it does.
Returns the text of the current HTML content. If the content isn't HTML, $mech will die.
The text is extracted by parsing the content, and then the extracted text is cached, so don't worry about performance of calling this repeatedly.
Lists all the links on the current page. Each link is a WWW::Mechanize::Link object. In list context, returns a list of all links. In scalar context, returns an array reference of all links.
Follows a specified link on the page. You specify the match to be
found using the same parms that find_link() uses.
Here some examples:
$mech->follow_link( text => 'download', n => 3 );
$mech->follow_link( url_regex => qr/download/i );
or
$mech->follow_link( url_regex => qr/(?i:download)/ );
$mech->follow_link( n => 3 );
Returns the result of the GET method (an HTTP::Response object) if a link was found. If the page has no links, or the specified link couldn't be found, returns undef.
Finds a link in the currently fetched page. It returns a
WWW::Mechanize::Link object which describes the link. (You'll
probably be most interested in the url() property.) If it fails
to find a link it returns undef.
You can take the URL part and pass it to the get() method. If
that's your plan, you might as well use the follow_link() method
directly, since it does the get() for you automatically.
Note that <FRAME SRC="..."> tags are parsed out of the the HTML
and treated as links so this method works with them.
You can select which link to find by passing in one or more of these key/value pairs:
text => 'string', and text_regex => qr/regex/,text matches the text of the link against string, which must be an
exact match. To select a link with text that is exactly "download", use
$mech->find_link( text => 'download' );
text_regex matches the text of the link against regex. To select a
link with text that has "download" anywhere in it, regardless of case, use
$mech->find_link( text_regex => qr/download/i );
Note that the text extracted from the page's links are trimmed. For
example, <a> foo </a> is stored as 'foo', and searching for
leading or trailing spaces will fail.
url => 'string', and url_regex => qr/regex/,Matches the URL of the link against string or regex, as appropriate. The URL may be a relative URL, like foo/bar.html, depending on how it's coded on the page.
url_abs => string and url_abs_regex => regexMatches the absolute URL of the link against string or regex, as appropriate. The URL will be an absolute URL, even if it's relative in the page.
name => string and name_regex => regexMatches the name of the link against string or regex, as appropriate.
id => string and id_regex => regexMatches the attribute 'id' of the link against string or regex, as appropriate.
class => string and class_regex => regexMatches the attribute 'class' of the link against string or regex, as appropriate.
tag => string and tag_regex => regexMatches the tag that the link came from against string or regex,
as appropriate. The tag_regex is probably most useful to check for
more than one tag, as in:
$mech->find_link( tag_regex => qr/^(a|frame)$/ );
The tags and attributes looked at are defined below, at $mech->find_link() : link format.
If n is not specified, it defaults to 1. Therefore, if you don't
specify any parms, this method defaults to finding the first link on the
page.
Note that you can specify multiple text or URL parameters, which will be ANDed together. For example, to find the first link with text of "News" and with "cnn.com" in the URL, use:
$mech->find_link( text => 'News', url_regex => qr/cnn\.com/ );
The return value is a reference to an array containing a
WWW::Mechanize::Link object for every link in $self->content.
The links come from the following:
<a href=...><area href=...><frame src=...><iframe src=...><link href=...><meta content=...>Returns all the links on the current page that match the criteria. The
method for specifying link criteria is the same as in find_link().
Each of the links returned is a WWW::Mechanize::Link object.
In list context, find_all_links() returns a list of the links.
Otherwise, it returns a reference to the list of links.
find_all_links() with no parameters returns all links in the
page.
find_all_inputs() returns an array of all the input controls in the current form whose properties match all of the regexes passed in. The controls returned are all descended from HTML::Form::Input.
If no criteria are passed, all inputs will be returned.
If there is no current page, there is no form on the current page, or there are no submit controls in the current form then the return will be an empty array.
You may use a regex or a literal string:
# get all textarea controls whose names begin with "customer"
my @customer_text_inputs = $mech->find_all_inputs(
type => 'textarea',
name_regex => qr/^customer/,
);
# get all text or textarea controls called "customer"
my @customer_text_inputs = $mech->find_all_inputs(
type_regex => qr/^(text|textarea)$/,
name => 'customer',
);
find_all_submits() does the same thing as find_all_inputs()
except that it only returns controls that are submit controls,
ignoring other types of input controls like text and checkboxes.
Lists all the images on the current page. Each image is a WWW::Mechanize::Image object. In list context, returns a list of all images. In scalar context, returns an array reference of all images.
Finds an image in the current page. It returns a WWW::Mechanize::Image object which describes the image. If it fails to find an image it returns undef.
You can select which image to find by passing in one or more of these key/value pairs:
alt => 'string' and alt_regex => qr/regex/,alt matches the ALT attribute of the image against string, which must be an
exact match. To select a image with an ALT tag that is exactly "download", use
$mech->find_image( alt => 'download' );
alt_regex matches the ALT attribute of the image against a regular
expression. To select an image with an ALT attribute that has "download"
anywhere in it, regardless of case, use
$mech->find_image( alt_regex => qr/download/i );
url => 'string', and url_regex => qr/regex/,Matches the URL of the image against string or regex, as appropriate. The URL may be a relative URL, like foo/bar.html, depending on how it's coded on the page.
url_abs => string and url_abs_regex => regexMatches the absolute URL of the image against string or regex, as appropriate. The URL will be an absolute URL, even if it's relative in the page.
tag => string and tag_regex => regexMatches the tag that the image came from against string or regex,
as appropriate. The tag_regex is probably most useful to check for
more than one tag, as in:
$mech->find_image( tag_regex => qr/^(img|input)$/ );
The tags supported are <img> and <input>.
If n is not specified, it defaults to 1. Therefore, if you don't
specify any parms, this method defaults to finding the first image on the
page.
Note that you can specify multiple ALT or URL parameters, which will be ANDed together. For example, to find the first image with ALT text of "News" and with "cnn.com" in the URL, use:
$mech->find_image( image => 'News', url_regex => qr/cnn\.com/ );
The return value is a reference to an array containing a
WWW::Mechanize::Image object for every image in $self->content.
Returns all the images on the current page that match the criteria. The
method for specifying image criteria is the same as in find_image().
Each of the images returned is a WWW::Mechanize::Image object.
In list context, find_all_images() returns a list of the images.
Otherwise, it returns a reference to the list of images.
find_all_images() with no parameters returns all images in the page.
These methods let you work with the forms on a page. The idea is to choose a form that you'll later work with using the field methods below.
Lists all the forms on the current page. Each form is an HTML::Form object. In list context, returns a list of all forms. In scalar context, returns an array reference of all forms.
Selects the numberth form on the page as the target for subsequent
calls to field() and click(). Also returns the form that was
selected.
If it is found, the form is returned as an HTML::Form object and set internally
for later use with Mech's form methods such as field() and click().
Emits a warning and returns undef if no form is found.
The first form is number 1, not zero.
Selects a form by name. If there is more than one form on the page with that name, then the first one is used, and a warning is generated.
If it is found, the form is returned as an HTML::Form object and
set internally for later use with Mech's form methods such as
field() and click().
Returns undef if no form is found.
Selects a form by ID. If there is more than one form on the page with that ID, then the first one is used, and a warning is generated.
If it is found, the form is returned as an HTML::Form object and
set internally for later use with Mech's form methods such as
field() and click().
Returns undef if no form is found.
Selects a form by passing in a list of field names it must contain. If there is more than one form on the page with that matches, then the first one is used, and a warning is generated.
If it is found, the form is returned as an HTML::Form object and set internally
for later used with Mech's form methods such as field() and click().
Returns undef if no form is found.
Note that this functionality requires libwww-perl 5.69 or higher.
These methods allow you to set the values of fields in a given form.
Given the name of a field, set its value to the value specified. This applies to the current form (as set by the form_name() or form_number() method or defaulting to the first form on the page).
The optional $number parameter is used to distinguish between two fields with the same name. The fields are numbered from 1.
Given the name of a select field, set its value to the value
specified. If the field is not <select multiple> and the
$value is an array, only the first value will be set. [Note:
the documentation previously claimed that only the last value would
be set, but this was incorrect.] Passing $value as a hash with
an n key selects an item by number (e.g.
{n => 3} or {n => [2,4]}).
The numbering starts at 1. This applies to the current form.
If you have a field with <select multiple> and you pass a single
$value, then $value will be added to the list of fields selected,
without clearing the others. However, if you pass an array reference,
then all previously selected values will be cleared.
Returns true on successfully setting the value. On failure, returns
false and calls $self>warn() with an error message.
This method sets multiple fields of the current form. It takes a list of field name and value pairs. If there is more than one field with the same name, the first one found is set. If you want to select which of the duplicate field to set, use a value which is an anonymous array which has the field value and its number as the 2 elements.
# set the second foo field
$mech->set_fields( $name => [ 'foo', 2 ] );
The fields are numbered from 1.
This applies to the current form.
This method sets fields of the current form without having to know their names. So if you have a login screen that wants a username and password, you do not have to fetch the form and inspect the source (or use the mech-dump utility, installed with WWW::Mechanize) to see what the field names are; you can just say
$mech->set_visible( $username, $password );
and the first and second fields will be set accordingly. The method is called set_visible because it acts only on visible fields; hidden form inputs are not considered. The order of the fields is the order in which they appear in the HTML source which is nearly always the order anyone viewing the page would think they are in, but some creative work with tables could change that; caveat user.
Each element in @criteria is either a field value or a field
specifier. A field value is a scalar. A field specifier allows
you to specify the type of input field you want to set and is
denoted with an arrayref containing two elements. So you could
specify the first radio button with
$mech->set_visible( [ radio => 'KCRW' ] );
Field values and specifiers can be intermixed, hence
$mech->set_visible( 'fred', 'secret', [ option => 'Checking' ] );
would set the first two fields to "fred" and "secret", and the next
OPTION menu field to "Checking".
The possible field specifier types are: "text", "password", "hidden", "textarea", "file", "image", "submit", "radio", "checkbox" and "option".
set_visible returns the number of values set.
"Ticks" the first checkbox that has both the name and value associated with it on the current form. Dies if there is no named check box for that value. Passing in a false value as the third optional argument will cause the checkbox to be unticked.
Causes the checkbox to be unticked. Shorthand for
tick($name,$value,undef)
Given the name of a field, return its value. This applies to the current form.
The optional $number parameter is used to distinguish between two fields with the same name. The fields are numbered from 1.
If the field is of type file (file upload field), the value is always cleared to prevent remote sites from downloading your local files. To upload a file, specify its file name explicitly.
Submits the page, without specifying a button to click. Actually, no button is clicked at all.
Returns an HTTP::Response object.
This used to be a synonym for $mech->click( 'submit' ), but is no
longer so.
This method lets you select a form from the previously fetched page, fill in its fields, and submit it. It combines the form_number/form_name, set_fields and click methods into one higher level call. Its arguments are a list of key/value pairs, all of which are optional.
fields => \%fieldsSpecifies the fields to be filled in the current form.
with_fields => \%fieldsProbably all you need for the common case. It combines a smart form selector
and data setting in one operation. It selects the first form that contains all
fields mentioned in \%fields. This is nice because you don't need to know
the name or number of the form to do this.
(calls form_with_fields() and set_fields()).
If you choose this, the form_number, form_name, form_id and fields options will be ignored.
form_number => nSelects the nth form (calls form_number()). If this parm is not
specified, the currently-selected form is used.
form_name => nameSelects the form named name (calls form_name())
form_id => IDSelects the form with ID ID (calls form_id())
Clicks on button button (calls click())
x => x, y => ySets the x or y values for click()
If no form is selected, the first form found is used.
If button is not passed, then the submit() method is used instead.
If you want to submit a file and get its content from a scalar rather than a file in the filesystem, you can use:
$mech->submit_form(with_fields => { logfile => [ [ undef, 'whatever', Content => $content ], 1 ] } );
Returns an HTTP::Response object.
Sets HTTP headers for the agent to add or remove from the HTTP request.
$mech->add_header( Encoding => 'text/klingon' );
If a value is undef, then that header will be removed from any
future requests. For example, to never send a Referer header:
$mech->add_header( Referer => undef );
If you want to delete a header, use delete_header.
Returns the number of name/value pairs added.
NOTE: This method was very different in WWW::Mechanize before 1.00.
Back then, the headers were stored in a package hash, not as a member of
the object instance. Calling add_header() would modify the headers
for every WWW::Mechanize object, even after your object no longer existed.
Removes HTTP headers from the agent's list of special headers. For instance, you might need to do something like:
# Don't send a Referer for this URL
$mech->add_header( Referer => undef );
# Get the URL
$mech->get( $url );
# Back to the default behavior
$mech->delete_header( 'Referer' );
Allows you to suppress warnings to the screen.
$mech->quiet(0); # turns on warnings (the default)
$mech->quiet(1); # turns off warnings
$mech->quiet(); # returns the current quietness status
Get or set the page stack depth. Use this if you're doing a lot of page scraping and running out of memory.
A value of 0 means "no history at all." By default, the max stack depth is humongously large, effectively keeping all history.
Dumps the contents of $mech->content into $filename.
$filename will be overwritten. Dies if there are any errors.
If the content type does not begin with "text/", then the content is saved in binary mode.
Prints a dump of the HTTP response headers for the most recent response. If $fh is not specified or is undef, it dumps to STDOUT.
Unlike the rest of the dump_* methods, you cannot specify a filehandle to print to.
Prints a dump of the links on the current page to $fh. If $fh is not specified or is undef, it dumps to STDOUT.
If $absolute is true, links displayed are absolute, not relative.
Prints a dump of the images on the current page to $fh. If $fh is not specified or is undef, it dumps to STDOUT.
If $absolute is true, links displayed are absolute, not relative.
Prints a dump of the forms on the current page to $fh. If $fh is not specified or is undef, it dumps to STDOUT.
Prints a dump of the text on the current page to $fh. If $fh is not specified or is undef, it dumps to STDOUT.
Clone the mech object. The clone will be using the same cookie jar as the original mech.
An overloaded version of redirect_ok() in LWP::UserAgent.
This method is used to determine whether a redirection in the request
should be followed.
Note that WWW::Mechanize's constructor pushes POST on to the agent's
requests_redirectable list.
Overloaded version of request() in LWP::UserAgent. Performs
the actual request. Normally, if you're using WWW::Mechanize, it's
because you don't want to deal with this level of stuff anyway.
Note that $request will be modified.
Returns an HTTP::Response object.
Allows you to replace the HTML that the mech has found. Updates the forms and links parse-trees that the mech uses internally.
Say you have a page that you know has malformed output, and you want to update it so the links come out correctly:
my $html = $mech->content;
$html =~ s[</option>.{0,3}</td>][</option></select></td>]isg;
$mech->update_html( $html );
This method is also used internally by the mech itself to update its own HTML content when loading a page. This means that if you would like to systematically perform the above HTML substitution, you would overload update_html in a subclass thusly:
package MyMech;
use base 'WWW::Mechanize';
sub update_html {
my ($self, $html) = @_;
$html =~ s[</option>.{0,3}</td>][</option></select></td>]isg;
$self->WWW::Mechanize::update_html( $html );
}
If you do this, then the mech will use the tidied-up HTML instead of the original both when parsing for its own needs, and for returning to you through content.
Overloading this method is also the recommended way of implementing extra validation steps (e.g. link checkers) for every HTML page received. warn and die would then come in handy to signal validation errors.
Provide credentials to be used for HTTP Basic authentication for all sites and realms until further notice.
The four argument form described in LWP::UserAgent is still supported.
Returns the credentials for the realm and URI.
Remove any credentials set up with credentials().
As a sublass of LWP::UserAgent, WWW::Mechanize inherits all of LWP::UserAgent's methods. Many of which are overridden or extended. The following methods are inherited unchanged. View the LWP::UserAgent documentation for their implementation descriptions.
This is not meant to be an inclusive list. LWP::UA may have added others.
Inherited from LWP::UserAgent.
Inherited from LWP::UserAgent.
Inherited from LWP::UserAgent.
Inherited from LWP::UserAgent.
Inherited from LWP::UserAgent.
Inherited from LWP::UserAgent.
Inherited from LWP::UserAgent.
These methods are only used internally. You probably don't need to know about them.
Updates all internal variables in $mech as if $request was just performed, and returns $response. The page stack is not altered by this method, it is up to caller (e.g. request) to do that.
Modifies a HTTP::Request before the request is sent out, for both GET and POST requests.
We add a Referer header, as well as header to note that we can accept gzip
encoded content, if Compress::Zlib is installed.
Convenience method to make it easier for subclasses like WWW::Mechanize::Cached to intercept the request.
Resets the internal fields that track page parsed stuff.
Extracts links from the content of a webpage, and populates the {links}
property with WWW::Mechanize::Link objects.
The agent keeps a stack of visited pages, which it can pop when it needs to go BACK and so on.
The current page needs to be pushed onto the stack before we get a new page, and the stack needs to be popped when BACK occurs.
Neither of these take any arguments, they just operate on the $mech object.
Centralized warning method, for diagnostics and non-fatal problems.
Defaults to calling CORE::warn, but may be overridden by setting
onwarn in the constructor.
Centralized error method. Defaults to calling CORE::die, but
may be overridden by setting onerror in the constructor.
WWW::Mechanize is hosted at GitHub, though the bug tracker still lives at Google Code.
Repository: https://github.com/bestpractical/www-mechanize/. Bugs: http://code.google.com/p/www-mechanize/issues
Spidering Hacks from O'Reilly (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spiderhks/) is a great book for anyone wanting to know more about screen-scraping and spidering.
There are six hacks that use Mech or a Mech derivative:
The book was also positively reviewed on Slashdot: http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/11/2126256
The Mech mailing list is at http://groups.google.com/group/www-mechanize-users and is specific to Mechanize, unlike the LWP mailing list below. Although it is a users list, all development discussion takes place here, too.
The LWP mailing list is at http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=libwww, and is more user-oriented and well-populated than the WWW::Mechanize list.
http://perlmonks.org is an excellent community of support, and many questions about Mech have already been answered there.
A random array of examples submitted by users, included with the Mechanize distribution.
IBM article "Secure Web site access with Perl"
Leland Johnson's hack #84 in Google Hacks, 2nd Edition is an example of a production script that uses WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TableContentParser. It takes in keywords and returns the estimated price of these keywords on Google's AdWords program.
Linda Julien writes about using HTTP::Recorder to create WWW::Mechanize scripts.
Jason Gilmore's article on using WWW::Mechanize for scraping sales information from Amazon and eBay.
Chris Ball's article about using WWW::Mechanize for scraping TV listings.
Randal Schwartz's article on scraping Yahoo News for images. It's
already out of date: He manually walks the list of links hunting
for matches, which wouldn't have been necessary if the find_link()
method existed at press time.
WWW::Mechanize on the Perl Advent Calendar, by Mark Fowler.
Michael Schilli's article on Mech and WWW::Mechanize::Shell for the German magazine Linux Magazin.
Here are modules that use or subclass Mechanize. Let me know of any others:
Acts as a proxy for web interaction, and then generates WWW::Mechanize scripts.
Just like Mech, but using Microsoft Internet Explorer to do the work.
Thanks to the numerous people who have helped out on WWW::Mechanize in
one way or another, including
Kirrily Robert for the original WWW::Automate,
Lyle Hopkins,
Damien Clark,
Ansgar Burchardt,
Gisle Aas,
Jeremy Ary,
Hilary Holz,
Rafael Kitover,
Norbert Buchmuller,
Dave Page,
David Sainty,
H.Merijn Brand,
Matt Lawrence,
Michael Schwern,
Adriano Ferreira,
Miyagawa,
Peteris Krumins,
Rafael Kitover,
David Steinbrunner,
Kevin Falcone,
Mike O'Regan,
Mark Stosberg,
Uri Guttman,
Peter Scott,
Phillipe Bruhat,
Ian Langworth,
John Beppu,
Gavin Estey,
Jim Brandt,
Ask Bjoern Hansen,
Greg Davies,
Ed Silva,
Mark-Jason Dominus,
Autrijus Tang,
Mark Fowler,
Stuart Children,
Max Maischein,
Meng Wong,
Prakash Kailasa,
Abigail,
Jan Pazdziora,
Dominique Quatravaux,
Scott Lanning,
Rob Casey,
Leland Johnson,
Joshua Gatcomb,
Julien Beasley,
Abe Timmerman,
Peter Stevens,
Pete Krawczyk,
Tad McClellan,
and the late great Iain Truskett.
Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Andy Lester. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
| WWW-Mechanize documentation | Contained in the WWW-Mechanize distribution. |
package WWW::Mechanize;
our $VERSION = '1.68';
use strict; use warnings; use HTTP::Request 1.30; use LWP::UserAgent 5.827; use HTML::Form 1.00; use HTML::TokeParser; use base 'LWP::UserAgent'; our $HAS_ZLIB; BEGIN { $HAS_ZLIB = eval 'use Compress::Zlib (); 1;'; }
sub new { my $class = shift; my %parent_parms = ( agent => "WWW-Mechanize/$VERSION", cookie_jar => {}, ); my %mech_parms = ( autocheck => ($class eq 'WWW::Mechanize' ? 1 : 0), onwarn => \&WWW::Mechanize::_warn, onerror => \&WWW::Mechanize::_die, quiet => 0, stack_depth => 8675309, # Arbitrarily humongous stack headers => {}, noproxy => 0, ); my %passed_parms = @_; # Keep the mech-specific parms before creating the object. while ( my($key,$value) = each %passed_parms ) { if ( exists $mech_parms{$key} ) { $mech_parms{$key} = $value; } else { $parent_parms{$key} = $value; } } my $self = $class->SUPER::new( %parent_parms ); bless $self, $class; # Use the mech parms now that we have a mech object. for my $parm ( keys %mech_parms ) { $self->{$parm} = $mech_parms{$parm}; } $self->{page_stack} = []; $self->env_proxy() unless $mech_parms{noproxy}; # libwww-perl 5.800 (and before, I assume) has a problem where # $ua->{proxy} can be undef and clone() doesn't handle it. $self->{proxy} = {} unless defined $self->{proxy}; push( @{$self->requests_redirectable}, 'POST' ); $self->_reset_page(); return $self; }
my %known_agents = ( 'Windows IE 6' => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)', 'Windows Mozilla' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6', 'Mac Safari' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85', 'Mac Mozilla' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401', 'Linux Mozilla' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624', 'Linux Konqueror' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux)', ); sub agent_alias { my $self = shift; my $alias = shift; if ( defined $known_agents{$alias} ) { return $self->agent( $known_agents{$alias} ); } else { $self->warn( qq{Unknown agent alias "$alias"} ); return $self->agent(); } }
sub known_agent_aliases { return sort keys %known_agents; }
sub get { my $self = shift; my $uri = shift; $uri = $uri->url if ref($uri) eq 'WWW::Mechanize::Link'; $uri = $self->base ? URI->new_abs( $uri, $self->base ) : URI->new( $uri ); # It appears we are returning a super-class method, # but it in turn calls the request() method here in Mechanize return $self->SUPER::get( $uri->as_string, @_ ); }
sub put { my $self = shift; my $uri = shift; $uri = $uri->url if ref($uri) eq 'WWW::Mechanize::Link'; $uri = $self->base ? URI->new_abs( $uri, $self->base ) : URI->new( $uri ); # It appears we are returning a super-class method, # but it in turn calls the request() method here in Mechanize return $self->_SUPER_put( $uri->as_string, @_ ); } # Added until LWP::UserAgent has it. sub _SUPER_put { require HTTP::Request::Common; my($self, @parameters) = @_; my @suff = $self->_process_colonic_headers(\@parameters,1); return $self->request( HTTP::Request::Common::PUT( @parameters ), @suff ); }
sub reload { my $self = shift; return unless my $req = $self->{req}; return $self->_update_page( $req, $self->_make_request( $req, @_ ) ); }
sub back { my $self = shift; my $stack = $self->{page_stack}; return unless $stack && @{$stack}; my $popped = pop @{$self->{page_stack}}; my $req = $popped->{req}; my $res = $popped->{res}; $self->_update_page( $req, $res ); return 1; }
sub success { my $self = shift; return $self->res && $self->res->is_success; }
sub uri { my $self = shift; return $self->response->request->uri; } sub res { my $self = shift; return $self->{res}; } sub response { my $self = shift; return $self->{res}; } sub status { my $self = shift; return $self->{status}; } sub ct { my $self = shift; return $self->{ct}; } sub content_type { my $self = shift; return $self->{ct}; } sub base { my $self = shift; return $self->{base}; } sub is_html { my $self = shift; return defined $self->ct && ($self->ct eq 'text/html'); }
sub title { my $self = shift; return unless $self->is_html; if ( not defined $self->{title} ) { require HTML::HeadParser; my $p = HTML::HeadParser->new; $p->parse($self->content); $self->{title} = $p->header('Title'); } return $self->{title}; }
sub content { my $self = shift; my $content = $self->{content}; if ( $self->is_html ) { my %parms = @_; if ( exists $parms{base_href} ) { my $base_href = (delete $parms{base_href}) || $self->base; $content=~s/<head>/<head>\n<base href="$base_href">/i; } if ( my $format = delete $parms{format} ) { if ( $format eq 'text' ) { $content = $self->text; } else { $self->die( qq{Unknown "format" parameter "$format"} ); } } $self->_check_unhandled_parms( %parms ); } return $content; }
sub text { my $self = shift; if ( not defined $self->{text} ) { require HTML::TreeBuilder; my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new(); $tree->parse( $self->content ); $tree->eof(); $tree->elementify(); # just for safety $self->{text} = $tree->as_text(); $tree->delete; } return $self->{text}; } sub _check_unhandled_parms { my $self = shift; my %parms = @_; for my $cmd ( sort keys %parms ) { $self->die( qq{Unknown named argument "$cmd"} ); } }
sub links { my $self = shift; $self->_extract_links() unless $self->{links}; return @{$self->{links}} if wantarray; return $self->{links}; }
sub follow_link { my $self = shift; my %parms = ( n=>1, @_ ); if ( $parms{n} eq 'all' ) { delete $parms{n}; $self->warn( q{follow_link(n=>"all") is not valid} ); } my $link = $self->find_link(%parms); if ( $link ) { return $self->get( $link->url ); } if ( $self->{autocheck} ) { $self->die( 'Link not found' ); } return; }
sub find_link { my $self = shift; my %parms = ( n=>1, @_ ); my $wantall = ( $parms{n} eq 'all' ); $self->_clean_keys( \%parms, qr/^(n|(text|url|url_abs|name|tag|id|class)(_regex)?)$/ ); my @links = $self->links or return; my $nmatches = 0; my @matches; for my $link ( @links ) { if ( _match_any_link_parms($link,\%parms) ) { if ( $wantall ) { push( @matches, $link ); } else { ++$nmatches; return $link if $nmatches >= $parms{n}; } } } # for @links if ( $wantall ) { return @matches if wantarray; return \@matches; } return; } # find_link # Used by find_links to check for matches # The logic is such that ALL parm criteria that are given must match sub _match_any_link_parms { my $link = shift; my $p = shift; # No conditions, anything matches return 1 unless keys %$p; return if defined $p->{url} && !($link->url eq $p->{url} ); return if defined $p->{url_regex} && !($link->url =~ $p->{url_regex} ); return if defined $p->{url_abs} && !($link->url_abs eq $p->{url_abs} ); return if defined $p->{url_abs_regex} && !($link->url_abs =~ $p->{url_abs_regex} ); return if defined $p->{text} && !(defined($link->text) && $link->text eq $p->{text} ); return if defined $p->{text_regex} && !(defined($link->text) && $link->text =~ $p->{text_regex} ); return if defined $p->{name} && !(defined($link->name) && $link->name eq $p->{name} ); return if defined $p->{name_regex} && !(defined($link->name) && $link->name =~ $p->{name_regex} ); return if defined $p->{tag} && !($link->tag && $link->tag eq $p->{tag} ); return if defined $p->{tag_regex} && !($link->tag && $link->tag =~ $p->{tag_regex} ); return if defined $p->{id} && !($link->attrs->{id} && $link->attrs->{id} eq $p->{id} ); return if defined $p->{id_regex} && !($link->attrs->{id} && $link->attrs->{id} =~ $p->{id_regex} ); return if defined $p->{class} && !($link->attrs->{class} && $link->attrs->{class} eq $p->{class} ); return if defined $p->{class_regex} && !($link->attrs->{class} && $link->attrs->{class} =~ $p->{class_regex} ); # Success: everything that was defined passed. return 1; } # Cleans the %parms parameter for the find_link and find_image methods. sub _clean_keys { my $self = shift; my $parms = shift; my $rx_keyname = shift; for my $key ( keys %$parms ) { my $val = $parms->{$key}; if ( $key !~ qr/$rx_keyname/ ) { $self->warn( qq{Unknown link-finding parameter "$key"} ); delete $parms->{$key}; next; } my $key_regex = ( $key =~ /_regex$/ ); my $val_regex = ( ref($val) eq 'Regexp' ); if ( $key_regex ) { if ( !$val_regex ) { $self->warn( qq{$val passed as $key is not a regex} ); delete $parms->{$key}; next; } } else { if ( $val_regex ) { $self->warn( qq{$val passed as '$key' is a regex} ); delete $parms->{$key}; next; } if ( $val =~ /^\s|\s$/ ) { $self->warn( qq{'$val' is space-padded and cannot succeed} ); delete $parms->{$key}; next; } } } # for keys %parms return; } # _clean_keys()
sub find_all_links { my $self = shift; return $self->find_link( @_, n=>'all' ); }
sub find_all_inputs { my $self = shift; my %criteria = @_; my $form = $self->current_form() or return; my @found; foreach my $input ( $form->inputs ) { # check every pattern for a match on the current hash my $matched = 1; foreach my $criterion ( sort keys %criteria ) { # Sort so we're deterministic my $field = $criterion; my $is_regex = ( $field =~ s/(?:_regex)$// ); my $what = $input->{$field}; $matched = defined($what) && ( $is_regex ? ( $what =~ $criteria{$criterion} ) : ( $what eq $criteria{$criterion} ) ); last if !$matched; } push @found, $input if $matched; } return @found; }
sub find_all_submits { my $self = shift; return $self->find_all_inputs( @_, type_regex => qr/^(submit|image)$/ ); }
sub images { my $self = shift; $self->_extract_images() unless $self->{images}; return @{$self->{images}} if wantarray; return $self->{images}; }
sub find_image { my $self = shift; my %parms = ( n=>1, @_ ); my $wantall = ( $parms{n} eq 'all' ); $self->_clean_keys( \%parms, qr/^(n|(alt|url|url_abs|tag)(_regex)?)$/ ); my @images = $self->images or return; my $nmatches = 0; my @matches; for my $image ( @images ) { if ( _match_any_image_parms($image,\%parms) ) { if ( $wantall ) { push( @matches, $image ); } else { ++$nmatches; return $image if $nmatches >= $parms{n}; } } } # for @images if ( $wantall ) { return @matches if wantarray; return \@matches; } return; } # Used by find_images to check for matches # The logic is such that ALL parm criteria that are given must match sub _match_any_image_parms { my $image = shift; my $p = shift; # No conditions, anything matches return 1 unless keys %$p; return if defined $p->{url} && !($image->url eq $p->{url} ); return if defined $p->{url_regex} && !($image->url =~ $p->{url_regex} ); return if defined $p->{url_abs} && !($image->url_abs eq $p->{url_abs} ); return if defined $p->{url_abs_regex} && !($image->url_abs =~ $p->{url_abs_regex} ); return if defined $p->{alt} && !(defined($image->alt) && $image->alt eq $p->{alt} ); return if defined $p->{alt_regex} && !(defined($image->alt) && $image->alt =~ $p->{alt_regex} ); return if defined $p->{tag} && !($image->tag && $image->tag eq $p->{tag} ); return if defined $p->{tag_regex} && !($image->tag && $image->tag =~ $p->{tag_regex} ); # Success: everything that was defined passed. return 1; }
sub find_all_images { my $self = shift; return $self->find_image( @_, n=>'all' ); }
sub forms { my $self = shift; $self->_extract_forms() unless $self->{forms}; return @{$self->{forms}} if wantarray; return $self->{forms}; } sub current_form { my $self = shift; if ( !$self->{current_form} ) { $self->form_number(1); } return $self->{current_form}; }
sub form_number { my ($self, $form) = @_; # XXX Should we die if no $form is defined? Same question for form_name() my $forms = $self->forms; if ( $forms->[$form-1] ) { $self->{current_form} = $forms->[$form-1]; return $self->{current_form}; } return; }
sub form_name { my ($self, $form) = @_; my $temp; my @matches = grep {defined($temp = $_->attr('name')) and ($temp eq $form) } $self->forms; my $nmatches = @matches; if ( $nmatches > 0 ) { if ( $nmatches > 1 ) { $self->warn( "There are $nmatches forms named $form. The first one was used." ) } return $self->{current_form} = $matches[0]; } return; }
sub form_id { my ($self, $formid) = @_; my $temp; my @matches = grep { defined($temp = $_->attr('id')) and ($temp eq $formid) } $self->forms; if ( @matches ) { $self->warn( 'There are ', scalar @matches, " forms with ID $formid. The first one was used." ) if @matches > 1; return $self->{current_form} = $matches[0]; } else { $self->warn( qq{ There is no form with ID "$formid"} ); return undef; } }
sub form_with_fields { my ($self, @fields) = @_; die 'no fields provided' unless scalar @fields; my @matches; FORMS: for my $form (@{ $self->forms }) { my @fields_in_form = $form->param(); for my $field (@fields) { next FORMS unless grep { $_ eq $field } @fields_in_form; } push @matches, $form; } my $nmatches = @matches; if ( $nmatches > 0 ) { if ( $nmatches > 1 ) { $self->warn( "There are $nmatches forms with the named fields. The first one was used." ) } return $self->{current_form} = $matches[0]; } else { $self->warn( qq{There is no form with the requested fields} ); return undef; } }
sub field { my ($self, $name, $value, $number) = @_; $number ||= 1; my $form = $self->current_form(); if ($number > 1) { $form->find_input($name, undef, $number)->value($value); } else { if ( ref($value) eq 'ARRAY' ) { $form->param($name, $value); } else { $form->value($name => $value); } } }
sub select { my ($self, $name, $value) = @_; my $form = $self->current_form(); my $input = $form->find_input($name); if (!$input) { $self->warn( qq{Input "$name" not found} ); return; } if ($input->type ne 'option') { $self->warn( qq{Input "$name" is not type "select"} ); return; } # For $mech->select($name, {n => 3}) or $mech->select($name, {n => [2,4]}), # transform the 'n' number(s) into value(s) and put it in $value. if (ref($value) eq 'HASH') { for (keys %$value) { $self->warn(qq{Unknown select value parameter "$_"}) unless $_ eq 'n'; } if (defined($value->{n})) { my @inputs = $form->find_input($name, 'option'); my @values = (); # distinguish between multiple and non-multiple selects # (see INPUTS section of `perldoc HTML::Form`) if (@inputs == 1) { @values = $inputs[0]->possible_values(); } else { foreach my $input (@inputs) { my @possible = $input->possible_values(); push @values, pop @possible; } } my $n = $value->{n}; if (ref($n) eq 'ARRAY') { $value = []; for (@$n) { unless (/^\d+$/) { $self->warn(qq{"n" value "$_" is not a positive integer}); return; } push @$value, $values[$_ - 1]; # might be undef } } elsif (!ref($n) && $n =~ /^\d+$/) { $value = $values[$n - 1]; # might be undef } else { $self->warn('"n" value is not a positive integer or an array ref'); return; } } else { $self->warn('Hash value is invalid'); return; } } # hashref if (ref($value) eq 'ARRAY') { $form->param($name, $value); return 1; } $form->value($name => $value); return 1; }
sub set_fields { my $self = shift; my %fields = @_; my $form = $self->current_form or $self->die( 'No form defined' ); while ( my ( $field, $value ) = each %fields ) { if ( ref $value eq 'ARRAY' ) { $form->find_input( $field, undef, $value->[1])->value($value->[0] ); } else { $form->value($field => $value); } } # while } # set_fields()
sub set_visible { my $self = shift; my $form = $self->current_form; my @inputs = $form->inputs; my $num_set = 0; for my $value ( @_ ) { # Handle type/value pairs an arrayref if ( ref $value eq 'ARRAY' ) { my ( $type, $value ) = @$value; while ( my $input = shift @inputs ) { next if $input->type eq 'hidden'; if ( $input->type eq $type ) { $input->value( $value ); $num_set++; last; } } # while } # by default, it's a value else { while ( my $input = shift @inputs ) { next if $input->type eq 'hidden'; $input->value( $value ); $num_set++; last; } # while } } # for return $num_set; } # set_visible()
sub tick { my $self = shift; my $name = shift; my $value = shift; my $set = @_ ? shift : 1; # default to 1 if not passed # loop though all the inputs my $index = 0; while ( my $input = $self->current_form->find_input( $name, 'checkbox', $index ) ) { # Can't guarantee that the first element will be undef and the second # element will be the right name foreach my $val ($input->possible_values()) { next unless defined $val; if ($val eq $value) { $input->value($set ? $value : undef); return; } } # move onto the next input $index++; } # while # got self far? Didn't find anything $self->warn( qq{No checkbox "$name" for value "$value" in form} ); } # tick()
sub untick { shift->tick(shift,shift,undef); }
sub value { my $self = shift; my $name = shift; my $number = shift || 1; my $form = $self->current_form; if ( $number > 1 ) { return $form->find_input( $name, undef, $number )->value(); } else { return $form->value( $name ); } } # value
sub click { my ($self, $button, $x, $y) = @_; for ($x, $y) { $_ = 1 unless defined; } my $request = $self->current_form->click($button, $x, $y); return $self->request( $request ); }
sub click_button { my $self = shift; my %args = @_; for ( keys %args ) { if ( !/^(number|name|value|input|x|y)$/ ) { $self->warn( qq{Unknown click_button parameter "$_"} ); } } for ($args{x}, $args{y}) { $_ = 1 unless defined; } my $form = $self->current_form or $self->die( 'click_button: No form has been selected' ); my $request; if ( $args{name} ) { $request = $form->click( $args{name}, $args{x}, $args{y} ); } elsif ( $args{number} ) { my $input = $form->find_input( undef, 'submit', $args{number} ); $request = $input->click( $form, $args{x}, $args{y} ); } elsif ( $args{input} ) { $request = $args{input}->click( $form, $args{x}, $args{y} ); } elsif ( $args{value} ) { my $i = 1; while ( my $input = $form->find_input(undef, 'submit', $i) ) { if ( $args{value} && ($args{value} eq $input->value) ) { $request = $input->click( $form, $args{x}, $args{y} ); last; } $i++; } # while } # $args{value} return $self->request( $request ); }
sub submit { my $self = shift; my $request = $self->current_form->make_request; return $self->request( $request ); }
sub submit_form { my( $self, %args ) = @_; for ( keys %args ) { if ( !/^(form_(number|name|fields|id)|(with_)?fields|button|x|y)$/ ) { # XXX Why not die here? $self->warn( qq{Unknown submit_form parameter "$_"} ); } } my $fields; for (qw/with_fields fields/) { if ($args{$_}) { if ( ref $args{$_} eq 'HASH' ) { $fields = $args{$_}; } else { die "$_ arg to submit_form must be a hashref"; } last; } } if ( $args{with_fields} ) { $fields || die q{must submit some 'fields' with with_fields}; $self->form_with_fields(keys %{$fields}) or die "There is no form with the requested fields"; } elsif ( my $form_number = $args{form_number} ) { $self->form_number( $form_number ) or die "There is no form numbered $form_number"; } elsif ( my $form_name = $args{form_name} ) { $self->form_name( $form_name ) or die qq{There is no form named "$form_name"}; } elsif ( my $form_id = $args{form_id} ) { $self->form_id( $form_id ) or die qq{There is no form with ID "$form_id"}; } else { # No form selector was used. # Maybe a form was set separately, or we'll default to the first form. } $self->set_fields( %{$fields} ) if $fields; my $response; if ( $args{button} ) { $response = $self->click( $args{button}, $args{x} || 0, $args{y} || 0 ); } else { $response = $self->submit(); } return $response; }
sub add_header { my $self = shift; my $npairs = 0; while ( @_ ) { my $key = shift; my $value = shift; ++$npairs; $self->{headers}{$key} = $value; } return $npairs; }
sub delete_header { my $self = shift; while ( @_ ) { my $key = shift; delete $self->{headers}{$key}; } return; }
sub quiet { my $self = shift; $self->{quiet} = $_[0] if @_; return $self->{quiet}; }
sub stack_depth { my $self = shift; $self->{stack_depth} = shift if @_; return $self->{stack_depth}; }
sub save_content { my $self = shift; my $filename = shift; open( my $fh, '>', $filename ) or $self->die( "Unable to create $filename: $!" ); binmode $fh unless $self->content_type =~ m{^text/}; print {$fh} $self->content or $self->die( "Unable to write to $filename: $!" ); close $fh or $self->die( "Unable to close $filename: $!" ); return; }
sub dump_headers { my $self = shift; my $fh = shift || \*STDOUT; print {$fh} $self->response->headers_as_string; return; }
sub dump_links { my $self = shift; my $fh = shift || \*STDOUT; my $absolute = shift; for my $link ( $self->links ) { my $url = $absolute ? $link->url_abs : $link->url; $url = '' if not defined $url; print {$fh} $url, "\n"; } return; }
sub dump_images { my $self = shift; my $fh = shift || \*STDOUT; my $absolute = shift; for my $image ( $self->images ) { my $url = $absolute ? $image->url_abs : $image->url; $url = '' if not defined $url; print {$fh} $url, "\n"; } return; }
sub dump_forms { my $self = shift; my $fh = shift || \*STDOUT; for my $form ( $self->forms ) { print {$fh} $form->dump, "\n"; } return; }
sub dump_text { my $self = shift; my $fh = shift || \*STDOUT; my $absolute = shift; print {$fh} $self->text, "\n"; return; }
sub clone { my $self = shift; my $clone = $self->SUPER::clone(); $clone->cookie_jar( $self->cookie_jar ); return $clone; }
sub redirect_ok { my $self = shift; my $prospective_request = shift; my $response = shift; my $ok = $self->SUPER::redirect_ok( $prospective_request, $response ); if ( $ok ) { $self->{redirected_uri} = $prospective_request->uri; } return $ok; }
sub request { my $self = shift; my $request = shift; $request = $self->_modify_request( $request ); if ( $request->method eq 'GET' || $request->method eq 'POST' ) { $self->_push_page_stack(); } return $self->_update_page($request, $self->_make_request( $request, @_ )); }
sub update_html { my $self = shift; my $html = shift; $self->_reset_page; $self->{ct} = 'text/html'; $self->{content} = $html; return; }
sub credentials { my $self = shift; # The lastest LWP::UserAgent also supports 2 arguments, # in which case the first is host:port if (@_ == 4 || (@_ == 2 && $_[0] =~ /:\d+$/)) { return $self->SUPER::credentials(@_); } @_ == 2 or $self->die( 'Invalid # of args for overridden credentials()' ); return @$self{qw( __username __password )} = @_; }
sub get_basic_credentials { my $self = shift; my @cred = grep { defined } @$self{qw( __username __password )}; return @cred if @cred == 2; return $self->SUPER::get_basic_credentials(@_); }
sub clear_credentials { my $self = shift; delete @$self{qw( __username __password )}; }
sub _update_page { my ($self, $request, $res) = @_; $self->{req} = $request; $self->{redirected_uri} = $request->uri->as_string; $self->{res} = $res; $self->{status} = $res->code; $self->{base} = $res->base; $self->{ct} = $res->content_type || ''; if ( $res->is_success ) { $self->{uri} = $self->{redirected_uri}; $self->{last_uri} = $self->{uri}; } if ( $res->is_error ) { if ( $self->{autocheck} ) { $self->die( 'Error ', $request->method, 'ing ', $request->uri, ': ', $res->message ); } } $self->_reset_page; # Try to decode the content. Undef will be returned if there's nothing to decompress. # See docs in HTTP::Message for details. Do we need to expose the options there? my $content = $res->decoded_content(); $content = $res->content if (not defined $content); $content .= _taintedness(); if ($self->is_html) { $self->update_html($content); } else { $self->{content} = $content; } return $res; } # _update_page our $_taintbrush; # This is lifted wholesale from Test::Taint sub _taintedness { return $_taintbrush if defined $_taintbrush; # Somehow we need to get some taintedness into our $_taintbrush. # Let's try the easy way first. Either of these should be # tainted, unless somebody has untainted them, so this # will almost always work on the first try. # (Unless, of course, taint checking has been turned off!) $_taintbrush = substr("$0$^X", 0, 0); return $_taintbrush if _is_tainted( $_taintbrush ); # Let's try again. Maybe somebody cleaned those. $_taintbrush = substr(join('', grep { defined } @ARGV, %ENV), 0, 0); return $_taintbrush if _is_tainted( $_taintbrush ); # If those don't work, go try to open some file from some unsafe # source and get data from them. That data is tainted. # (Yes, even reading from /dev/null works!) for my $filename ( qw(/dev/null / . ..), values %INC, $0, $^X ) { if ( open my $fh, '<', $filename ) { my $data; if ( defined sysread $fh, $data, 1 ) { $_taintbrush = substr( $data, 0, 0 ); last if _is_tainted( $_taintbrush ); } } } # Sanity check die "Our taintbrush should have zero length!" if length $_taintbrush; return $_taintbrush; } sub _is_tainted { no warnings qw(void uninitialized); return !eval { join('', shift), kill 0; 1 }; } # _is_tainted
sub _modify_request { my $self = shift; my $req = shift; # add correct Accept-Encoding header to restore compliance with # http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/2068/158.htm # http://use.perl.org/~rhesa/journal/25952 if (not $req->header( 'Accept-Encoding' ) ) { # "identity" means "please! unencoded content only!" $req->header( 'Accept-Encoding', $HAS_ZLIB ? 'gzip' : 'identity' ); } my $last = $self->{last_uri}; if ( $last ) { $last = $last->as_string if ref($last); $req->header( Referer => $last ); } while ( my($key,$value) = each %{$self->{headers}} ) { if ( defined $value ) { $req->header( $key => $value ); } else { $req->remove_header( $key ); } } return $req; }
sub _make_request { my $self = shift; return $self->SUPER::request(@_); }
sub _reset_page { my $self = shift; $self->{links} = undef; $self->{images} = undef; $self->{forms} = undef; $self->{current_form} = undef; $self->{title} = undef; $self->{text} = undef; return; }
my %link_tags = ( a => 'href', area => 'href', frame => 'src', iframe => 'src', link => 'href', meta => 'content', ); sub _extract_links { my $self = shift; $self->{links} = []; if ( defined $self->{content} ) { my $parser = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$self->{content}); while ( my $token = $parser->get_tag( keys %link_tags ) ) { my $link = $self->_link_from_token( $token, $parser ); push( @{$self->{links}}, $link ) if $link; } # while } return; } my %image_tags = ( img => 'src', input => 'src', ); sub _extract_images { my $self = shift; $self->{images} = []; if ( defined $self->{content} ) { my $parser = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$self->{content}); while ( my $token = $parser->get_tag( keys %image_tags ) ) { my $image = $self->_image_from_token( $token, $parser ); push( @{$self->{images}}, $image ) if $image; } # while } return; } sub _image_from_token { my $self = shift; my $token = shift; my $parser = shift; my $tag = $token->[0]; my $attrs = $token->[1]; if ( $tag eq 'input' ) { my $type = $attrs->{type} or return; return unless $type eq 'image'; } require WWW::Mechanize::Image; return WWW::Mechanize::Image->new({ tag => $tag, base => $self->base, url => $attrs->{src}, name => $attrs->{name}, height => $attrs->{height}, width => $attrs->{width}, alt => $attrs->{alt}, }); } sub _link_from_token { my $self = shift; my $token = shift; my $parser = shift; my $tag = $token->[0]; my $attrs = $token->[1]; my $url = $attrs->{$link_tags{$tag}}; my $text; my $name; if ( $tag eq 'a' ) { $text = $parser->get_trimmed_text("/$tag"); $text = '' unless defined $text; my $onClick = $attrs->{onclick}; if ( $onClick && ($onClick =~ /^window\.open\(\s*'([^']+)'/) ) { $url = $1; } } # a # Of the tags we extract from, only 'AREA' has an alt tag # The rest should have a 'name' attribute. # ... but we don't do anything with that bit of wisdom now. $name = $attrs->{name}; if ( $tag eq 'meta' ) { my $equiv = $attrs->{'http-equiv'}; my $content = $attrs->{'content'}; return unless $equiv && (lc $equiv eq 'refresh') && defined $content; if ( $content =~ /^\d+\s*;\s*url\s*=\s*(\S+)/i ) { $url = $1; $url =~ s/^"(.+)"$/$1/ or $url =~ s/^'(.+)'$/$1/; } else { undef $url; } } # meta return unless defined $url; # probably just a name link or <AREA NOHREF...> require WWW::Mechanize::Link; return WWW::Mechanize::Link->new({ url => $url, text => $text, name => $name, tag => $tag, base => $self->base, attrs => $attrs, }); } # _link_from_token sub _extract_forms { my $self = shift; my @forms = HTML::Form->parse( $self->content, $self->base ); $self->{forms} = \@forms; for my $form ( @forms ) { for my $input ($form->inputs) { if ($input->type eq 'file') { $input->value( undef ); } } } return; }
sub _push_page_stack { my $self = shift; my $req = $self->{req}; my $res = $self->{res}; return unless $req && $res && $self->stack_depth; # Don't push anything if it's a virgin object my $stack = $self->{page_stack} ||= []; if ( @{$stack} >= $self->stack_depth ) { shift @{$stack}; } push( @{$stack}, { req => $req, res => $res } ); return 1; }
sub warn { my $self = shift; return unless my $handler = $self->{onwarn}; return if $self->quiet; return $handler->(@_); }
sub die { my $self = shift; return unless my $handler = $self->{onerror}; return $handler->(@_); } # NOT an object method! sub _warn { require Carp; return &Carp::carp; ## no critic } # NOT an object method! sub _die { require Carp; return &Carp::croak; ## no critic } 1; # End of module __END__