LWP::UserAgent and Google

[Alan Mosca]

Of course! WWW::Mechanize! Why didn't I think of using it?
I don't know why Google never released an API when they said they would,
it's quite annoying.
Thanks!

On 13 January 2014 19:54, Mark Zealey <mark at itsolve.co.uk> wrote:

> It's easy enough, here's some code I wrote a few weeks back:
>
>     my $mech = $self->{mech} = WWW::Mechanize->new();
>     $mech->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
>     $mech->get('https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin');
>     $mech->form_number(1);
>     $mech->field(Email => $USER);
>     $mech->field(Passwd => $PASS);
>     $mech->click();
>
> Afterwards just ->get whatever page you want to go to next...
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 13/01/14 19:54, Alan Mosca wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Has anyone had experience logging into google accounts (possibly using
>> LWP::UserAgent)?
>> I'm trying to extract data from google trends (which doesn't have an API)
>> and found some examples in Python, but they all seem outdated, so whatever
>> mechanism they were using doesn't seem to work anymore.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>


-- 
  Alan