Re: Using wget to fill in a form
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:01:51AM -0500, craig@gtek.biz wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return the information I want:
>
> [code]http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate?ACTION=INIT&FORM_HOST_PORT=/prod/www/data/z3950/locils2.html,z3950.loc.gov,7090[/code]
>
> I have the list of book ISBNs in a text file, so scripting this should be quite easy. The problem is I can't figure out how to submit the form from the command line. I figured wget would be the best way, but everything I try results in downloading a single line that reads "Your form didn't include an ACTION!" So I thought I would turn to here for help. The test ISBN I am using is for The Linux Cookbook: 1886411484, QA76.76.O63S788 2001.
Have a look at:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/
Have a read of:
http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/01/22/mechanize.html
Do a google search on "perl www::mechanize"
Apologies for the 'z' in "mechanize"
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