OfficeLinebacker has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
We often run out of recording space on our webex account. It has been proposed to write a script that automatically checks the recordings and downloads the oldest ones to a folder on our shared drive and deletes them off webex.
I have started playing around and the site is mostly JavaScript (e.g. the "Host login button" is 'javascript:Logon()' as opposed to a URL. I think I remember automating interaction with such a site a loooong time ago and IIRC, the way to go was to watch the header/response traffic between the browser and the web site and mimic that using LWP::UserAgent/WWW::Mechanize. I just want do double check here before I jump down a rabbit hole to see if there is any advice wrought on the anvils of experience that the PM community can provide.
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Re: Automating Interaction with a mostly JavaScript site
by davido (Cardinal) on Oct 16, 2013 at 00:54 UTC | |
by OfficeLinebacker (Chaplain) on Oct 16, 2013 at 03:43 UTC | |
by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 16, 2013 at 08:41 UTC | |
by OfficeLinebacker (Chaplain) on Oct 16, 2013 at 18:27 UTC | |
by davido (Cardinal) on Oct 16, 2013 at 19:14 UTC | |
by OfficeLinebacker (Chaplain) on Oct 16, 2013 at 21:03 UTC | |
by davido (Cardinal) on Oct 16, 2013 at 21:31 UTC | |
Re: Automating Interaction with a mostly JavaScript site (The State of Web spidering in Perl)
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 16, 2013 at 00:37 UTC |