= WWW::Mechanize examples
== Google
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'
page = agent.get("http://www.google.com/")
search_form = page.forms.with.name("f").first
search_form.q = "Hello"
search_results = agent.submit(search_form)
puts search_results.body
== Rubyforge
require 'mechanize'
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
page = agent.get('http://rubyforge.org/')
link = page.links.text(/Log In/)
page = agent.click(link)
form = page.forms[1]
form.form_loginname = ARGV[0]
form.form_pw = ARGV[1]
page = agent.submit(form, form.buttons.first)
puts page.body
== File Upload
This example uploads one image as two different images to flickr.
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
# Get the flickr sign in page
page = agent.get('http://flickr.com/signin/flickr/')
# Fill out the login form
form = page.forms.name('flickrloginform').first
form.email = ARGV[0]
form.password = ARGV[1]
page = agent.submit(form)
# Go to the upload page
page = agent.click page.links.text('Upload')
# Fill out the form
form = page.forms.action('/photos_upload_process.gne').first
form.file_uploads.name('file1').first.file_name = ARGV[2]
agent.submit(form)
== Pluggable Parsers
Lets say you want html pages to automatically be parsed with Rubyful Soup.
This example shows you how:
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
require 'rubyful_soup'
class SoupParser < WWW::Mechanize::Page
attr_reader :soup
def initialize(uri = nil, response = nil, body = nil, code = nil)
@soup = BeautifulSoup.new(body)
super(uri, response, body, code)
end
end
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
agent.pluggable_parser.html = SoupParser
Now all HTML pages will be parsed with the SoupParser class, and automatically
give you access to a method called 'soup' where you can get access to the
Beautiful Soup for that page.
== Using a proxy
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
agent.set_proxy('localhost', '8000')
page = agent.get(ARGV[0])
puts page.body
== The transact method
transact runs the given block and then resets the page history. I.e. after the
block has been executed, you're back at the original page; no need count how
many times to call the back method at the end of a loop (while accounting for
possible exceptions).
This example also demonstrates subclassing Mechanize.
require 'mechanize'
class TestMech < WWW::Mechanize
def process
get 'http://rubyforge.org/'
search_form = page.forms.first
search_form.words = 'WWW'
submit search_form
page.links.with.href( %r{/projects/} ).each do |link|
next if link.href =~ %r{/projects/support/}
puts 'Loading %-30s %s' % [link.href, link.text]
begin
transact do
click link
# Do stuff, maybe click more links.
end
# Now we're back at the original page.
rescue => e
$stderr.puts "#{e.class}: #{e.message}"
end
end
end
end
TestMech.new.process
