How can I use Perl to grab text from a web page that is dynamically generated with JavaScript?

Question

There is a website I am trying to pull information from in Perl, however the section of the page I need is being generated using javascript so all you see in the source is:<

Answer 1

This might be what your looking for (in PHP):

$url = 'http://downloadcenter.trendmicro.com/ajx/pattern_result.php';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'q=patresult_page®=NABU');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $content;
exit;

once you get the content you can use something like: http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/ to parse the results you need or a similar perl equivalent???

And/or do the parsing yourself.

FYI: all I did was use firebug to inspect the requests and recreated it with PHP/CURL...