[NTLUG:Discuss] Scriptable, javascript-aware web browser OR virtual operator

Leroy Tennison leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
Wed Aug 29 23:00:08 CDT 2007


David Stanaway wrote:
> Pick up the scraps here maybe?
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> http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/DOMForm/
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> Ed Leach wrote:
>> Leroy Tennison wrote:
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>>  > I need to "screen scrape" a generated web page which is generated by
>>  > filling in a form on a previous page. I haven't had any success finding
>>  > a solution yet so I'm hoping someone here can help.
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>> Hi Leroy,
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>> Thanks for your presentation at the last NTLUG meeting.
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>> Sorry you're not getting much help on this because I'm stuck at the same 
>> place!
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>> One thing that seems simple but apparently is not would be to do "View 
>> Page Source / Save As" on the current page to save the result of 
>> javascript evaluation to a file. I can't find a way to do this from 
>> outside Firefox. If I make any progress, I'll let you know.
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Hmmm, this does sound interesting.  Thanks.



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