I've done a lot of web scraping with Mojolicious' Mojo::UserAgent: http://mojolicious.org/perldoc/Mojo/UserAgent as the example shows it's as simple as: use Mojo::UserAgent; my $ua = Mojo::UserAgent->new; say $ua->get('blogs.perl.org')->res->dom->find('h2 > a')->map('text')->join("\n"); If you need to execute JS, then CasperJS looks good.