Getting Started With WWW::Mechanize

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:53:54 GMT

This Ruby code uses WWW:mechanize to act like a web browser.



 require 'rubygems'

 require 'mechanize'



 agent = WWW::Mechanize.new

 page = agent.get('http://google.com/')

Refer to the documentation at http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/mechanize/. Then gem install mechanize, and try running the code in an irb session.

output (extract):



=> # {url #}

 {meta}

 {title "Google"}

 {iframes}

 {frames}

 {links

  #   "Images"

   "http://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi">

  #   "Maps"

   "http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl">

  #   "News"

   "http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn">

  #   "Shopping"

   "http://www.google.com/prdhp?hl=en&tab=wf">

  #   "Gmail"

   "http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm">

Strip slashes from user input (if applicable)

XoloX (Peter Odding) — Wed, 25 May 2005 23:02:01 GMT

This code checks if magic quotes are enabled, and if so, strips slashes from GET, POST and COOKIE arrays. It's fully recursive, and thus supports POST arrays.



// If magic quotes are enabled, strip slashes from all user data

function stripslashes_recursive($var) {

	return (is_array($var) ? array_map('stripslashes_recursive', $var) : stripslashes($var));

}



if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {

	$_GET = stripslashes_recursive($_GET);

	$_POST = stripslashes_recursive($_POST);

	$_COOKIE = stripslashes_recursive($_COOKIE);

}



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Getting Started With WWW::Mechanize

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