PERL Beginners - Automate a search query from a website

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Automate a search query from a website

JBallinger

2008-03-30, 4:43 am

Hi,

I am trying to automate a search query from a website that uses CGI
script to process the query.

I want my script to post a search query to a website, and then parse
the html result from the website back into an output file.

Could someone give me some direction on how to do this? Where should I
start? What tools should I use to do this job?

Here is the website that I am trying to post the query and get the
result back into a file.

http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/gpc/qtlassoc.html

Thanks.
JB

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

2008-03-30, 8:04 am

JBallinger wrote:
> I am trying to automate a search query from a website that uses CGI
> script to process the query.
>
> I want my script to post a search query to a website, and then parse
> the html result from the website back into an output file.
>
> Could someone give me some direction on how to do this? Where should I
> start? What tools should I use to do this job?

perldoc -q "How do I automate an HTML form submission?"

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