Question

I am using WWW:Mechanize to try to login to a site.

Code

use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

$mech->get("https://www.amazon.com/gp/css/homepage.html/");
$mech->submit_form(
form_name => 'yaSignIn',
fields => {
email => 'email',
qpassword=> 'pass'
}
);


print $mech->content();

However it is not being logged into the site. What am i doing wrong. The website redirects and says please enable cookies to continue. How do i do that .

Answer 1

Try putting this block before your get.

$mech->cookie_jar(
        HTTP::Cookies->new(
            file           => "cookies.txt",
            autosave       => 1,
            ignore_discard => 1,
    )
);

SuperEdit2: I just tried this myself and it seemed to work. Give it a try.(changed the form number to 3 and added an agent alias)

use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize;

# Create a new instance of Mechanize
my $bot = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$bot->agent_alias( 'Linux Mozilla' );
# Create a cookie jar for the login credentials
$bot->cookie_jar(
        HTTP::Cookies->new(
            file           => "cookies.txt",
            autosave       => 1,
            ignore_discard => 1,
    )
);
# Connect to the login page
my $response = $bot->get( 'https://www.amazon.com/gp/css/homepage.html/' );
# Get the login form. You might need to change the number.
$bot->form_number(3);
# Enter the login credentials.
$bot->field( email => 'email' );
$bot->field( password => 'pass' );
$response = $bot->click();

print $response->decoded_content;