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Sun, 10 February 2013 09:49

Arno Welzel
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Cal Dershowitz, 2013-02-10 09:04:

> Hello newsgroup,
>
> I've been trying to use perl to automate processes that aren't much more
> than a few GUI events that a person would do if he had a browser.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> use autodie;
> use utf8;
> use WWW::Mechanize;
>
> my $url = 'http://translate.google.com/';
> my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new;
> my $result = $mech->get($url);
> die "GET failedn" unless $result->is_success;
[...]

> Is this something that php can do in a way that involves less grief?

I don't think so.

But if you need to use Google Translate as a service, see here:

<https://developers.google.com/translate/>

Well - the service is not for free. Therefore i doubt that using
<http://translate.google.com/> as a "service" through scripts is legal.

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		using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Cal Dershowitz on Sun, 10 February 2013 08:04
		Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: M. Strobel on Sun, 10 February 2013 09:03
		Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 10 February 2013 09:49
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		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 11 February 2013 19:13
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		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 12 February 2013 14:09
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Cal Dershowitz on Tue, 19 February 2013 08:56
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 19 February 2013 12:12
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 19 February 2013 13:27
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Cal Dershowitz on Wed, 20 February 2013 01:08
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Peter H. Coffin on Tue, 12 February 2013 13:50
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 12 February 2013 14:28
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: M. Strobel on Tue, 12 February 2013 14:29
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 17 February 2013 07:48
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Cal Dershowitz on Tue, 19 February 2013 09:19
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Arno Welzel on Tue, 19 February 2013 10:43
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Warren Post on Mon, 11 February 2013 13:40
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Cal Dershowitz on Mon, 11 February 2013 20:20
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: M. Strobel on Mon, 11 February 2013 21:32
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		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Warren Post on Tue, 12 February 2013 13:42
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 12 February 2013 14:27
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Cal Dershowitz on Wed, 13 February 2013 04:09
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 13 February 2013 11:14
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		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 13 February 2013 23:40
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 February 2013 06:48
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Kim Andr Aker on Thu, 14 February 2013 16:15
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Cal Dershowitz on Tue, 19 February 2013 09:27
		Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser By: Arno Welzel on Tue, 19 February 2013 10:44

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