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Re: Wanted: Well scriptable browser
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Re: Wanted: Well scriptable browser

  • Subject: Re: Wanted: Well scriptable browser
  • From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:27:51 -0800
Are you sure you need a web browser for this?

I tend to think of web browsers purely as a way to DISPLAY html pages which
doesn't necessarily sound like a requirement of your request - you're
essentially posting a web form and following URLs.

Don't get me wrong, scripting IE (which is probably the most scriptable web
browser) may be the way to do, but everything you describe here can be done
with curl, the built-in command-line http tool.

man curl or curl --help for more details

Andrew
:)


On 3/23/03 2:14 PM, "Felicidad Sauser" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I try to write a script that controls a web browser to
> do the following things:
> - fill in form text fields
> - choose popup menus, radio + checkboxes
> - click form submit buttons
> - click some links
>
> I've tried using Safari plus the UI Scripting Beta,
> but it didn't work out, because a) Safari has no
> native support for any of the mentioned things and b)
> clicking links doesn't even work using the UI
> Scripting Beta, because they are not addressable
> objects.
>
> My questions:
> - Does anybody know of a well scriptable browser in OS
> X?
> - Does anybody have AppleScript examples how to do the
> mentioned things in Safari or another scriptable
> browser?
>
> Thanks!
> Felicidad
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