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perlscreen-scraping
futuregeek
futuregeek

Reputation: 284

How can I store browser cookies while scraping?

I am trying to scrape an ASPX page with Perl's WWW::Mechanize module. The page sends some cookie which I would like to store and send in subsequent requests. So how we can store the cookies using this module?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 246

Answers (2)

gangabass
gangabass

Reputation: 10666

As revolet said WWW::Mechanize works with Cookies automatically. But if by "store" you mean save cookies to the file you can use this code:

$mech->cookie_jar->save( $cookie_filename );

And you can load these cookies in another app by reading your cookie file:

$mech->cookie_jar->load( $cookie_filename );

Upvotes: 1

neodon
neodon

Reputation: 58

According to the documentation, WWW::Mechanize should handle cookies for you automatically if you use the same instance across multiple requests.

Can you let us know what kind of issues have come up with your approach?

Upvotes: 3

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