(Jun 28, 2014 11:32 AM)Chickendipper Wrote:  Any language is good.
The easiest way would be VB.NET or C# with the WebBrowser control, since that keeps the session data like a normal browser. You can then invoke clicks, typing etc.

(Jun 28, 2014 11:50 AM)~Dec Wrote:  PhantomJS is not buggy at all. The problem with it is that you interact with the site via JavaScript, and don't immediately have a means of waiting for pages to load (it is a browser, so you do have to wait for pages to load before you can do anything).

I use a certain technique with PhantomJS that gets around this fairly easily. The idea is to detect if the page is currently loading, and set a global variable that you can reference if the page is loading or not, as well as an index counter that starts at 0. Then, you have an array of functions (which are your "steps") and have a main function that initiates a call to each of these steps in sequence, updating the counter of each one, and each time it runs it'll pause until the "load" global flag is set to finished, so you can prevent steps from being called too early. Also, you'll need to re-route the console messages so you can actually see the browser console output.

Here's an example in code:

PHP Code


<?php 
var page = new WebPage();
var index = 0;
var loadInProgress = false;

page.onConsoleMessage = function(msg) {
  console.log(msg);
};

page.onLoadStarted = function() {
  loadInProgress = true;
  console.log("load started");
};

page.onLoadFinished = function() {
  loadInProgress = false;
  console.log("load finished");
};

var steps = [
  function() {
    // load login page
    page.open("https://website.com/theformpage/");
  },
  function() {
    // enter credentials
    page.evaluate(function() {

      var arr = document.getElementsByClassName("login-form");
      var i;

      for (i=0; i < arr.length; i++) { 
      if (arr[i].getAttribute('method') == "POST") {

      arr[i].elements["email"].value="mylogin";
      arr[i].elements["password"].value="mypassword";
      return;
      }
      }
    });
  }, 
  function() {
    //Login
    page.evaluate(function() {
      var arr = document.getElementsByClassName("login-form");
      var i;

      for (i=0; i < arr.length; i++) {
      if (arr[i].getAttribute('method') == "POST") {
      arr[i].submit();
      return;
      }
      }

    });
  }, 
  function() {
    // Output content of page to stdout after form has been submitted
    page.evaluate(function() {
      console.log(document.querySelectorAll('html')[0].outerHTML);
    });
  }
];

var interval = setInterval(function() {
  if (!loadInProgress && typeof steps[index] === "function") {
    console.log("step " + (index + 1));
    steps[index]();
    index++;
  }
  if (typeof steps[index] !== "function") {
    console.log("test complete!");
    phantom.exit();
  }
}, 50); 


If what you want to do is much simpler, you could just use programmatic HTTP request with something like node.js and the `request` module on npm. I used it to create a Gulp plugin that logs into userscripts.org, and uploads/updates my script for me. You can see the code here: https://gist.github.com/declandewet/e3bcbde12c29acf5efe8

(Jun 28, 2014 01:00 PM)Dialog Wrote:  Seriously? Don't use a webbrowser for that shit.

(Jun 29, 2014 08:03 AM)Shahbazi Wrote:  At what point do you call/use the interval?