auto login to a web site

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Hi,

Is it possible to write some script which will automatically open a web application, fill required credentials and click on the login button. And from next page download some data?

If first step is cleared, I can go for download thing by my own.

So, guys please help me with the approach.

Regards,
Rakesh

Posted 13-Oct-11 3:34am

rakesh5454

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R. Giskard Reventlov 13-Oct-11 10:25am

I take you mean to try this against someone else's web site? Try asking them for access.

rakesh5454 13-Oct-11 10:50am

No, I have credentials to login but don't have other means to get into it programmatic-ally. No interfaces are there and can't be provided.

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2011-10-13T05:20:00

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You can use the "screen scraper" approach using the WebBrowser[^] class to interact with a web site. Your program can then extract the data from returned pages and process it as required.

Posted 13-Oct-11 5:20am

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rakesh5454 13-Oct-11 23:21pm

Will you give me some more information about screen scraper approach? Any sample code? Thanks!!

Richard MacCutchan 14-Oct-11 4:45am

Sorry I don't have any that I could give you, but a quick Google search may find you some. Also take a look at this article by Luc Pattyn.

Richard MacCutchan 14-Oct-11 4:46am

Also this was just recommended to me.