retrieve info from searching site

[batman]

there is a website that cotains 2 search input fields: ID and Lastname

i can input to search using either one but lastname uses fuzzy logic.

if more than one result comes back (like if i pass in % for last
name), i get a selection list of all the people.

i can then click on a single person and click the 'info' button to get
a table returned back with all the pertinent info about that person.

i'm trying to come up with a way to do the above and then cycle
through each person in the selection list and get 'info' and pull the
returned table into a local SQL database.

im familiar with programming but never done any perl before-
anybody have an idea?

 

[greymaus]

there is a website that cotains 2 search input fields: ID and Lastname

i can input to search using either one but lastname uses fuzzy logic.

if more than one result comes back (like if i pass in % for last
name), i get a selection list of all the people.

i can then click on a single person and click the 'info' button to get
a table returned back with all the pertinent info about that person.

i'm trying to come up with a way to do the above and then cycle
through each person in the selection list and get 'info' and pull the
returned table into a local SQL database.

im familiar with programming but never done any perl before-
anybody have an idea?

perl module WWW::Mechanize might help

 

[Peter J. Holzer]

im familiar with programming but never done any perl before-
anybody have an idea?

Just curious: If you are familiar with programming but never have used
Perl before, why do you want to do this in Perl? Why don't you use a
programming language you already know?

hp