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It depends on narf-lib (>= 0.6.3), more exactly, it’s version of htmltools, and requires ruby-current (due to limitations in the net/http library of 1.8.2). If you want to try it out with Ruby 1.8.2, just get the net/*.rb files from ruby-current and use these instead.

Features

• Cookies (very preliminary, no expire etc.)
• automatic redirect
• Forms, Links

Be aware that it’s just a few-hour hack, to get my project done.

It’s still very generic and misses lots of usability methods. For example, I use find all the time, or have to pass the link that should be clicked to method click.

Example

Here’s a simple example, that logs into your rubyforge.org acount (pass your username and password as command-line argument).

  require 'mechanize'

  agent = WWW::Mechanize.new {|a| a.log = Logger.new(STDERR) }
  page = agent.get('http://rubyforge.org/')
  link = page.links.find {|l| l.node.text =~ /Log In/ }
  page = agent.click(link)
  form = page.forms[1]
  form.fields.find {|f| f.name == 'form_loginname'}.value = ARGV[0]
  form.fields.find {|f| f.name == 'form_pw'}.value = ARGV[1]
  page = agent.submit(form, form.buttons.first)
  puts page.body

Get it!

www.ntecs.de/viewcvs/viewcvs/WWW/