How to script URL Access to post radio buttons?
How to script URL Access to post radio buttons?
- Subject: How to script URL Access to post radio buttons?
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:06:50 +0100
So here I am trying to script a search of a site
(
http://www.ananova.com/search/index.html) using the word "climber" and
searching within the site. (Which is picked by a radio button below the
emtpy area for the search string.
It seems straightforward enough.. at first:
tell application "URL Access Scripting"
download "
http://www.ananova.com/search/index.html"; to thefile form data
"QUERY00=climber" replacing yes with progress --all on a single line
-- this arrives with file type "TEXT" creator type "MSIE"
end tell
However this always does a Web search. I want a site search.
The relevant HTML from the site is:
----
<table>
<form method="post" action="
http://www.ananova.com/search/index.html";
name="form">
<tr><td><small><input name="QUERY00" value=""
size="40"> </small></td>
<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><input type="image" src="" width="58"
height="22" name="CMD=search.run" alt="Search" border="0"></td></tr>
<tr><td align="left"><small><input type="radio" name="SAVEDB"
value="web">web <input type="radio" name="SAVEDB" value="ananova"
checked>Ananova</small></td></tr></table>
<input name="THRESHOLD" value="60" type="hidden"><input type="hidden"
name="B" value=""><input type="hidden" name="nav_src"
value="LeftColSearchUsed"><input name="ORGANISE_CODED" value="R:date"
type="hidden"><input name="DAYSMINUS" value="30" type="hidden"></form>
<form method="post" action="/search/index.html" name="form">
---
From gazing at this (and earlier failures) I realised that I needed the
"QUERY00=" string. However, I can't work out what to put in the "form data"
string to tell it that which radio button should be checked.
I've tried "{QUERY00=climber,SAVEDB=ananova}" - no dice. It puts
"climber,SAVEDB=ananova} in the search area and searches the Web.
I've tried {"QUERY00=climber,SAVEDB=ananova"}. Won't compile. form data is
a string.
So now I'm trying you guys. Any ideas?
Charles
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