From: "Esteban Manchado Velázquez" <zoso@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T02:02:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to automate web browser tasks?

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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:02:37AM +0900, Nick Sieger wrote:
> On 10/24/06, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> >
> >I know there's Watir or something... but I'm not using
> >IE (rather Firefox) and I don't want to "control the
> >browser" per se...
> >
> >Rather I want to automate some repetitive tasks... like
> >go to a form, fill in a couple of fields, click a checkbox,
> >pick from a dropdown, and click on Save.
> >
> >How would you do this?
>=20
>=20
> If I were going to do it in a browser, I'd use Selenium RC [1] along with
> the included selenium.rb to do things like this:
>=20
> |   selenium =3D Selenium::SeleneseInterpreter.new("localhost", 4444,
> "*firefox", "http://www.google.com/", 10000);
> |   selenium.start
> |   selenium.open "http://www.google.com/"
> |   browser.type "name=3Dq", "ruby"
> |   browser.click_and_wait "name=3DbtnG"

    +1

It executes inside the browser, so it executes Javascript and such.

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