Download files with Perl

Question

I have updated my code to look like this. When I run it though it says it cannot find the specified link. Also what is a good way to test that it is indeed connecting to the

Answer 1

As stated in a comment in your other question: here

You can use the same method to retrieve .csv files as .html, or any other text-based file for the matter.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

my $csv = get("http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/last3hours_hail.csv")
           or die "Could not fetch NWS CSV page.";

To login, you may need to use WWW::Mechanize to fill out the webform (look at $mech->get(), $mech->submit_form(), and $mech->follow_link())