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Re: Automatically driving a browser

From Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Automatically driving a browser
Date 2013-02-27 15:53 +0100
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <kgl6kp$lat$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)
References <pBE*2C4su@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>

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Theo Markettos wrote:

> Is there any means of programmatically operating a browser - for example,
> inspecting the DOM, click on links it finds, waiting for the next page to
> load, enter some text into a form, submit it, etc etc?  By this I mean the
> browser is operating as normal (with a UI) not as a perl script that's doing
> HTTP itself.

The iMacros Add-On for Firefox may serve your needs:
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/imacros-for-firefox/>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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Automatically driving a browser Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2013-02-27 14:48 +0000
  Re: Automatically driving a browser Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-02-27 15:53 +0100
    Re: Automatically driving a browser Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2013-02-28 00:34 +0000
      Re: Automatically driving a browser Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-02-28 17:33 +0100
  Re: Automatically driving a browser Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> - 2013-02-27 15:57 +0100
    Re: Automatically driving a browser Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2013-02-27 15:14 +0000
      Re: Automatically driving a browser Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-02-27 22:38 +0100
        Re: Automatically driving a browser Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2013-02-28 00:43 +0000
  Re: Automatically driving a browser Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-27 16:45 +0100

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