WWW::Mechanize belongs to the family of screen scraping products (along with http-access2 and Watir) that are capable to drive a browser. Let’s apply the ‘Show, don’t tell’ mantra - for everybody’s delight and surprise, illustrated on our google
The highlights of the post are the link to this Wired article about the economy of screen scraping (great article) and this screencast about how to use Dapper that I finally recorded.
E. Adar, J. Teevan, S. Dumais, and J. Elsas. Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining - WSDM \textquotesingle09, ACM Press, (2009)