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Re: Entering data into fields in a web form
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Re: Entering data into fields in a web form


  • Subject: Re: Entering data into fields in a web form
  • From: julifos <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 13:34:01 +0100

> Hello,
> I am trying to enter data in a web form to avoid copying and pasting
> one field at a time. Here is the script I am using. Netscape comes
> forward but the data is not entered in the fields. Is this possible
> with Applescript? If not is there a way to do it?

I'd try better IE, whose command "do script" to access DOM via javascript
is extremely powerfull. A brief example to enter data in forms (open
Google):

set jscode to "document.f.q.value='whatever';
document.f.submit();"

-- f: name of the form (look at page's source code)
-- q: name of text field to fill
-- value: value
-- submit(): javascript method to submit a form

tell application "Internet Explorer"
do script jscode
end tell

If you don't know elements' names or elements have no name, you can access
them by index:

Set jscode to "document.forms[0].elements[0].value='whatever'"

Anyway, you could send the remote app which will process the info the data,
just as the browser does it. Same result, different concept:

tell application "Internet Explorer"
GetURL "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=whatever";
end tell

--> hl: language, a hidden field into the form
--> ie: codification
--> q: query, the value you "entered" into the text field, url-encoded

JJ
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