[TriLUG] Help: Web form filler app?

[John Beimler]

On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 16:49, Jonathan Rippy wrote:
> "D. McLamb" wrote:
> > Does anyone know of an open source/linux app that will take data from a
> > comma delimited record in an extract file and automatically send each value
> > to a unique field in a web form?
> 
> If you have Perl available, you can do this via the LWP::UserAgent module.
> Of course, that assumes that you have LWP::UserAgent installed which is part
> of Bundle::LWP.  Suffice it to say, with perl and LWP::UserAgent in hand this
> should be a fairly straight forward thing to implement.
> 
> 'perldoc LWP::UserAgent' to get more info on this module...
> 
> Some info on installing the LWP::UserAgent module in case you need it.
> 
> If you need to install it, you can use CPAN with 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' and
> then 'install Bundle::LWP', assuming you have CPAN installed.  If not, you
> can get CPAN at http://www.cpan.org
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Theres some really good sample code linked from this article:
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col43.html

I've used this app a number of times to automate web forms.

Peace.

john

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