Question

I have successfully been using Win32::Ole module to browser through pages and submit forms. This time I am trying something different. I want to open the browser, fill out form, click submit, and it will show an image from that page, then get that image saved in a folder. What is a useful module for this one to use? Since I don’t know how to get the image from a page with Win32::Ole (I can get the contents if I navigate to that page, not when I submit a form and it goes to that page.)

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use WWW::Mechanize

from the faq:

$mech->get( 'photo.jpg' );
$mech->save_content( '/path/to/my/directory/photo.jpg' );

Here’s an example that retrieves and image (cats.gif) from a website and saves it to a local directory:

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck =>1);
$mech->get( 'http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/comp/cats.gif' );
$mech->save_content( 'c:/cats.gif' );