in reply to Automating Interaction with a mostly JavaScript site

I dont know the answer to the following question, but you may consider looking into it further: Doesn't the webex API provide a more elegant means than screen scraping?


Dave

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Re^2: Automating Interaction with a mostly JavaScript site
by OfficeLinebacker (Chaplain) on Oct 16, 2013 at 03:43 UTC
    I didn't realize they had an API. I'll have to look into that.

      Finding out of a target site/service provides an API is an imporant piece of research, best done early on.

Re^2: Automating Interaction with a mostly JavaScript site
by OfficeLinebacker (Chaplain) on Oct 16, 2013 at 18:27 UTC
    OK, I just found out that the type of account I'm concerned with (the so-called "online" account, for meetings of up to 25 people) doesn't work with the API. So I'm back to Anonymous Monk's reply.

      I'm sure that is by design; a more useful API is one of the selling features of the higher priced account. Too bad though.


      Dave

        That's exactly right. We have two accounts with webex and the one we run out of space on is the smaller, cheapie one (which, incidentally is much easier to use and therefore used a lot more here). So they are emailing me the forms to enable API on the bigger one, for S&G.

        Having said this, I'm making good progress. I've successfully logged in and gotten to the page which lists all the recordings. It's amazingly obfuscated with JavaScript but the Chrome Dev Tools are pure win for a scenario like this.