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Re: Applescript, AOL, & Webpages
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Re: Applescript, AOL, & Webpages


  • Subject: Re: Applescript, AOL, & Webpages
  • From: Bryan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 03:52:25 -0400
  • Organization: Apex Radiology

What you want is WebMiner available on Version Tracker:
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=736

Bryan Kaufman

List Guy wrote:

> "I need to write a script that will allow me to log on to a secure site. I
> have the oneclick utility which records button scripts. I have been able to
> log on to the secure site using this utility. However once I'm in the site
> I need to be able to click on various buttons to access other areas of the
> site. This is when I would like to call applescript back into action."
>
> "How does one script a web page?"
>
> Not with applescript. Applescript is an inter-application communication
> language. It may "script" applicaitions only in so far as those applications
> expose(er... permit) access to the "objects" recognized by that application.
> For most applications, including browsers, these are windows, documents,
> fields, cells, words.... This has nothing to do with the document object
> model, dynamic html, or objects in javascript or on web page. No browser
> exposes the html objects to applescript.
>
> That said, all modern browsers (and I think this includes recent versions of
> AOL's browser), support Javascript. Javascript is a language for -- among
> other things -- manipulating the objects created by an HTML document: forms,
> images, etc. It is possible with Internet Explorer (and *may* be possible
> with other browsers) to create an applescript that tells IE to execute a
> javascript. With javascript you can fill in fields, click buttons, etc. Be
> warned, however, that secure sites uses hidden fields and other tricks to
> prevent this (it improves security).
>
> "What are the values and objects of a web page?"
>
> If my understanding is correct, then you'll need a good book on javascript.
> Try Flanagan's _Javascript_ (though it is a bit out-of-date) or Goodman's
> _Javascript Bible_. Good luck.
>
> "In the AOL dictionary there is an object class called tables."
>
> I haven't attempted scripting AOL for a whiles, but this word "table" has
> nothing do to with Excel tables, HTML tables, relational database tables,
> coffee tables, or any other kind of table.
>
> It's my understanding AOL's browser is a version of Internet Explorer
> wrapped in AOL's custom software. I don't know how to tell (in the
> applescript sense) the browser anything. I don't own AOL, so I cant' test
> it, either.
>
> "I know that a web page is written in HTML.
> I know that the body of a web page is in a table."
>
> Only if it's badly done, IMHO. No flames, please. (If anyone's opinion
> differs, and anyone thinks tables are the beginning and end of web page
> design, just say so. ) See above answer.
>
> "I would be happy for any suggestions."
>
> You're welcome. You have set yourself a daunting but doable task -- I think.
> You'll need to learn a lot about AOL's applescript dictionary, applescript,
> and javascript.
>
> Now an example or two.
>
> Here's a script that sets a window size in IE:
>
> tell application "Internet Explorer" to set ie_windows_list to (ListWindows)
> as list
> set ie_size_window to "{window.resizeTo (300, 300);}"
> tell application "Internet Explorer"
> Activate
> do script ie_size_window window (item 1 of ie_windows_list)
> end tell
>
> EXAMPLE 2
>
> IF the following HTML is one page
>
> <form name="aform">
> <input type="text" name="test" size="9">
> </form>
>
> and that page is the frontmost page in IE THEN this applescript-javascript
> combination will fill in the box with the word "welcome"
>
> set js_script to "{document.aform.test.value='welcome';}"
> tell application "Internet Explorer"
> Activate
> set ie_windows_list to (ListWindows) as list
> do script js_script window (item 1 of ie_windows_list)
> end tell
>
> similar *javascript* can be written to "press" buttons, submit forms, etc.
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