Perl WWW::Mechanize from string variable
Question
In Perl, using module WWW::Mechanize (required, not other module), is it possible to "parse" document from string variable, instead of url?
I mean instead of
$mech->get($url);
to do something like
$html = '<html...';
$mech->???($html);
Possible?
3 answers
solution1
1 2012-03-12 05:24:16
You could write the data to disk and then get() it in the usual manner. Something like this:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Temp;
use URI::File;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $data = '<html><body>foo</body></html>';
# write the data to disk
my $fh = File::Temp->new;
print $fh $data;
$fh->close;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new;
$mech->get( URI::file->new( $fh->filename ) );
print $mech->content;
prints: <html><body>foo</body></html>
solution2
1 ACCPTED 2012-03-12 20:22:54
Got it:
$mech->get(0);
$mech->update_html('<html>...</html>');
It works!
solution3
-2 2012-03-11 23:55:43
Not really. You could try getting the HTTP::Response object using $mech->response and then using that object's content method to replace the content with your own string. But you would have to adjust all the message headers as well and it would get quite messy.
What is it that you want to do? The methods like forms and images that WWW::Mechanize provides are based on other modules and are fairly simple to code.
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