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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:44:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Python simulate browser activity
From: Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:23 PM, choi2k <rex.0510@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The application aims to simulate user activity including visit a
>> website and perform some interactive actions (click on the menu,
>> submit a form, redirect to another pages...etc)
>
> Did you look at Selenium?
> http://seleniumhq.org/

You might also be interested in Sikuli (http://sikuli.org/), which
uses Jython to write scripts to automate other programs using
screenshots.  It's pretty neat if you need to automate a GUI that is
otherwise difficult to deal with.

-- 
Jerry