This wraps www::mechanize and duplicates the basic function calls, biggest thing is auto requesting after timeouts. Will first pause rand() < 30 seconds, then after 3 failures it will pause 60 seconds, then 5 minutes...this will also start to change and use random user agents.
#skzz_util This has a bunch of cool stuff, everything from using regexes to clean a string or an array, manipulates dates to different dates (even written dates to MySQL format), use regex to extract a link, a date, a number, some pretty print functions, etc etc. BTW don't "use" it, just make sure its in your library and call function directly
skzz_util::clean_all( $str );
Here's a list of all the stuff in skz_util.
sub clean_all
sub clean_all_tags
sub trim_hash
sub clean_hash
sub clean_trim
sub timestamp
sub get_day_stamp
sub get_timestamp
sub convert_mdy_to_sql
sub convert_sql_to_mdy
sub split_date_and_time_for_sql
sub convert_date_to_sql
sub convert_date_to_short
sub date_to_sql
sub parse_time_from_sql
sub parse_date
sub convert_letter_date_to_sql
sub random
sub time_w_meridian_to_sql
sub process_time_to_sql
sub find_in_content_tag
sub regex_clean_trim
sub regex_extract_link
sub regex_extract_number
sub regex_extract_date
sub find_regex_in_string
sub uniq
sub search_term_against_list
sub search_term_against_list_pure
sub phash
sub parray
sub print_char_codes
sub print_hash
sub print_hash_sorted
sub print_array
sub clean_tbl_for_view
sub trim
sub clean_small_date
sub remove_zero_from_date
sub add_leading_zeros
sub test_col_vs_str_layout
sub test_str_vs_str_layout
sub dump_array_to_file
sub dump_file
sub undump_file
sub undump_file_str
sub print_all_methods_in_package
sub sentence_case