From: paul.rogers@... (Paul) Date: 2004-10-30T00:38:57+09:00 Subject: Re: From a Ruby Script, How to automatically login to www.netflix.com "Bradley, Todd" wrote in message news:<74297C5A6F930B4CB40D33BD127E882A0DA0D2@WSTEXCH00.westminster.polycom.com>... > > Any hint on how to: > > 1 - login to a website? > > 2 - Search the site? > > You've got a couple options, either interacting with the HTTP stream > directly or interacting with a web browser. If you don't mind limiting > your application to Windows, you could use the IE Controller which is > now called WTR and available here: http://rubyforge.org/projects/wtr. I > was just writing a program yesterday to look up people's phone numbers > using www.whitepages.com. WTR isn't documented very well, but if I can > figure it out, anyone can. > > > Todd. The code base for wtr is migrating to WATIR at the same url. There are quite a few unit tests, and several sample scripts. Let me know if you need help with it. The user manual is being written, just slowly Paul