Re: Automating certain actions in Firefox
Re: Automating certain actions in Firefox
- Subject: Re: Automating certain actions in Firefox
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:23:21 -0600
At 20:23 +0100 9/8/08, Saurabh Mittal wrote:
Newbie here. I was exploring the possibility of automating certain actions in Firefox. More specifically, I would like to monitor the values (read actually stock prices of an Indian trading website) in a webpage in which I have logged in through https.
Have a look at the GreaseMonkey add-in for Firefox. It makes it possible to add lines of JavaScript that get executed at controllable times - like after load is complete - while working with a page.
It does have a serious problem that might make it inappropriate for you. JavaScript itself has some problems with submitting a form. It's a security issue.
You might also have a look at curl which you could "do shell script" into from AppleScript. I use perl and curl combined to get info from web pages but logins and form submission are getting more and more difficult as the WWW combats folks with less than honorable intentions.
The "LiveHTTPheaders" Firefox add-in can help to discover just what the browser does when you hit a submit button after filling out form data.
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Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, though not thoroughly, thought through.
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