Re: Wanted: Well scriptable browser
Re: Wanted: Well scriptable browser
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Well scriptable browser
- From: "Daniel A. Shockley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:24:22 -0500
If you want to just send information to a web form, you can use
either URL Access Scripting or the command-line utility curl, as
Andrew mentions. Both are built-in to Mac OS X, and Mac OS 9 does
have URLAS.
I've got a short tutorial on submitting forms at
<
http://danshockley.com/index.php>, as well as a simple download
handler that lets you use curl to POST a form (in my handlers page).
If you need to see the results of your form-post, you can always open
the file that is returned by the POST command.
If you MUST interact with a browser, you can fill out the form using
Javascript commands sent via "do script" to Internet Explorer. I
believe there are samples of how to do this either in the mailing
list archives, or at
http://bbs.applescript.net
On 3/23/2003, Felicidad Sauser <email@hidden> wrote:
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 14:14:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Felicidad Sauser <email@hidden>
Subject: Wanted: Well scriptable browser
To: email@hidden
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
On 3/24/2003, Andrew Oliver <email@hidden> wrote:
From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
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
:)
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