Is this possible, screen scraping, sort of

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Hi,
I am tasked with a small project. I have to create an app that can login to
a website, navigate to a page from their menu, then on the popup page, select
an item, on the next popup, grab the data I am looking for and verify if with
our system.

I have to validate some information I have in our system with one of our
suppliers. So e.g for items A, B and C I need to verify their quantity amount
on their website.

Where can I find some information on doing this or can someone just provide
me a short sample to get started?

Thanks
 
Hi,
I was also liiking at WinHTTP. One issue is how do I handle the popup page?
Thanks for the info.

Thanks
 
Chris said:
I have to validate some information I have in our system with one of
our suppliers. So e.g for items A, B and C I need to verify their
quantity amount on their website.
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As you already have a business relation with them, perhaps they would
provide a web service for you to retrieve the information?

Andrew
 
I was also liiking at WinHTTP. One issue is how do I handle the popup
page?
Thanks for the info.
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Remember that the browser interface is for humans. The HTML that you see is
an interface with the browser, which does the actual messaging with the
server. Therefore, if you are writing an app that needs to collect data from
a web site, there is no need for it to click any buttons or hyperlinks. All
you have to do is find out what those links and buttons cause the browser to
request from the server, and perform the request that the browser would if a
human performed the interface action. A submit button, for example, is part
of an HTML form. When the button is clicked, the form contents are sent to
the server with an HTTP POST request. You can use the HttpWebRequest class
to create a POST request to the server with whatever data you need in it.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP

DSI PrintManager, Miradyne Component Libraries:
http://www.miradyne.net
 
They don't want to spend the dollars.

Andrew Morton said:
As you already have a business relation with them, perhaps they would
provide a web service for you to retrieve the information?

Andrew
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Hi,
I am tasked with a small project. I have to create an app that can login to
a website, navigate to a page from their menu, then on the popup page, select
an item, on the next popup, grab the data I am looking for and verify if with
our system.

I have to validate some information I have in our system with one of our
suppliers. So e.g for items A, B and C I need to verify their quantity amount
on their website.

Where can I find some information on doing this or can someone just provide
me a short sample to get started?

Thanks
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You can also use SWExplorerAutomation (SWEA) from http://webiussoft.com.
SWEA automates IE and saves time on development of an automation
script.
 
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