Macros for Firefox on Fedora Core 5
David J. Vernon
redhat at ladadee.com
Fri Jul 21 17:21:55 UTC 2006
On Friday 21 July 2006 12:28, Erich Carlson wrote:
> I'm looking for a method to record keystrokes to create macros to access
> a web page, enter the login info, download a file from the web page,
> etc.
>
> Does anyone have an easy way to do this?
Not exactly a Fedora thing. I have no idea how to do this in firefox For what
it is worth, you might try perl and WWW:Mechanize. It is very easy to do what
you want as long as the page is primarily static. WWW::Mechanize has no
javascript interpreter and I don't know how to get around that. Anyway, here
is a download files example from the WWW:Mechanize CPAN page with userID and
passWord added in. This one looks for all the mp3 links on a page and grabs
them. At least is should. I have not tested it at all.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
## Create our username and password variables
my $user_id = "mp3guy";
my $user_pw = "g3tmyf!l3s";
my $start = "https://www.somecrazyexample.site/login.html";
my $filePage = "https://www.somecrazyexample.site/all-the-mp3s-on-earth.html";
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
$mech->get( $start );
# submit the login form. Assumes the fields are 'uname' and 'passwd'
$mech->submit_form(
fields => {
uname => $user_id,
passwd => $user_pw,
}
);
# you should check to see if this worked somehow but for our example on we go.
$mech->get( $filePage );
my @links = $mech->find_all_links( url_regex => qr/\d+.+\.mp3$/ );
for my $link ( @links ) {
my $url = $link->url_abs;
my $filename = $url;
$filename =~ s[^.+/][];
print "Fetching $url";
$mech->get( $url, ':content_file' => $filename );
print " ", -s $filename, " bytes\n";
}
--
Life would be much easier if I had the source code. - unknown
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