From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2008-04-26T18:11:00+09:00
Subject: Re: help re recording/replaying (i.e. automating) HTTP interactions to a web-site???

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Greg,

Have you  looked into (Fire)Watir?

I am just releasing a new version of scRUBYt!  (a web scraping  
framework) where it will be possible to use FireWatir as the agent for  
navigation/scraping, so you can write a simple but powerful DSL (stuff  
like 'click_link', 'fill_textfield' etc) which is executed through  
Firefox and is very well suited for scenarios you just described. Drop  
me a line if you are interested.

But of course plain (Fire)Watir would do, too.

Cheers,
Peter
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On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Greg Hauptmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Actually can anyone recommend a good technique / software / plugin
> that would assist if I wanted to effectively (a) record my interaction
> with my bank at the HTTP level, then (b) use this to automate that
> behavior in my RoR application to automate pulling down daily account
> details?
>
> The best I can think of at the moment is: (a) Firefox Live HTTP
> Headers plugin then (b) manually write Ruby code that sends these out
> and waits for the response & check it before proceeding to the next
> http request.  I'm thinking someone probably has a better way, or
> plugin, to handle at least part (b)?
>
> Tks
>


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