How to Automate
There are various ways to write web automation:
- LWP
- Send GET and POST requests
- It's simple
- It works
- It's a lot of work
- WWW::Mechanize
- An excellent module written by Andy Lester
- A subclass of LWP::UserAgent
- More intuitive than straight LWP
- Methods mimic what you do with a web page: follow a link, fill in field values, submit a form
- Other Modules