vBulletin login with WWW::Mechanize
Apr 3, 2006
This is just part of a script that I wrote to…do something. The pertinent part here is using WWW::Mechanize to login to a vBulletin web forum. I figure Googlebot will guide someone trying to figure out how to use WWW::Mechanize this way.
use WWW::Mechanize; my $username = "foo"; my $password = "bar"; my $forum = "http://www.foo.com/forum/"; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new ( autocheck => 1, agent => 'Perl WWW::Mechanize', ); $mech->get( $forum ); $mech->submit_form( form_number => 1, fields => { vb_login_username => $username, vb_login_password => $password } ); $mech->follow_link( text => "Click here if your browser does not automatically redirect you." );