WWW::Scripter, version 0.025 (alpha)

For scripting web sites that have scripts

This is a subclass of WWW::Mechanize that uses the W3C DOM and pro-
vides scripting support.


RECENT CHANGES

See the Changes file for the long version.

0.025
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• The get, head, post, put and request methods now localise *_ to pro-
  tect a tied  $_  from modification by other  modules  WWW::Scripter
  depends on.
• The status and defaultStatus methods have been removed due to a con-
  flict with a WWW::Mechanize method.
• A memory leak in the ->frames method has been fixed.

0.024
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Link-fetching methods, like find_all_links, no longer die if there is
no document,  which  happens  after  browsing  to  an  unparsable  or
unretrievable  URL.  Thanks to Kengo  Tsukamoto  for  reporting  this
[rt.cpan.org #72481].

0.023
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• WWW::Mechanize::Link objects returned by  WWW::Scripter  can now be
  dumped via  Data::Dumper,  instead of  producing  a  ‘Can't  locate
  object method FETCHSIZE’ error.
• /../ at the beginning of a URL path is now stripped out.
• The warning displayed when a script cannot be loaded now  uses  the
  URL and line number of the page containing the <script> tag.

0.022
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• New status and defaultStatus window properties
• New  screen  method that returns a screen object.  This object  cur-
  rently does  nothing,  but  serves  mainly  as  a  placeholder  for
  future use.


INSTALLATION

The easiest way to install this module is to use the CPAN module or
the cpan script:

    [sudo] perl -MCPAN -e "install WWW::Scripter"

    [sudo] cpan WWW::Scripter

Or you can use the following:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    [sudo] make install


PREREQUISITES

This module requires  perl  5.8.3 or higher (5.8.4  or  higher  recom-
mended)  and the following modules,  which can be found on the  CPAN:

  HTML::DOM 0.045 or higher
  LWP 5.77 or higher
  URI
  WWW::Mechanize 1.2 or higher

If you are using perl 5.8.x, you will also need:

  Tie::RefHash::Weak 0.08

DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for these modules with
the perldoc command.

    perldoc WWW::Scripter

Or try using man (it's faster, in my experience):

    man WWW::Scripter


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2009-11 Father Chrysostomos

This program is free software; you may redistribute it, modify it, or
both, under the same terms as perl.