[Novalug] Need to automate a web browser session

Jason Kohles jkohles@palantir.com
Thu Sep 30 13:53:13 EDT 2010


Check out project SIKULI.  It's a scripting tool for automating any GUI, not just web browsers, and it's super slick.  It allows you to do things like draw a box around a button on screen and then the resulting script will look for that button and press it when you run the tool later.


On Sep 30, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Jim Ide wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to automate the process of visiting a 
> particular web site, clicking certain links,
> downloading files, etc.  What tools have you
> used that do this?  I have used Selenium, but
> it seems to be intended more for web app testing
> than for automating web tasks.
> 
> Requirements:
> 
> * must run in Linux and MS Windows
> * must be free
> * must be fairly easy for non-techies to use and understand
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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