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Asked: 2026-05-12T12:10:49+00:00

This is kind of tricky. There is this webpage which, I am guessing, uses

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This is kind of tricky. There is this webpage which, I am guessing, uses some kind of AJAX to pull out content based on the search query. When I fetch the page using get in Perl, it fetches the script code behind the php/html, but not the results which are displayed when the query is searched manually. I need to be able to fetch the content of the results page. Is there anyway to do this in Perl?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Take a look at Selenium RC and the WWW::Selenium module in Perl. With them you can control a real web browser.

    Another option is WWW::HtmlUnit which uses the HtmlUnit Java library to execute the JavaScript without a web browser. WWW::HtmlUnit uses Inline::Java to give Perl access to the library. I have found that when installing, it is best to say No to the question “Do you wish to build the JNI extension?”.

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