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user1510104
user1510104

Reputation: 1

Autofilling and submitting forms programmatically

I am wondering if it is possible for my PHP script to navigate to a web page that has a web form on it, fill out the fields and click submit without human intervention.

Is there a way to scan a page, extract the input text fields and supply a value?

Or is there a piece of software that can do this, doesn't matter if it is not PHP.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 738

Answers (4)

Jørgen R
Jørgen R

Reputation: 10806

There are several tools for automated testing of webpages, such as Selenium and Windmill.

Upvotes: 1

Luna
Luna

Reputation: 1488

With PHP, CURL is probably your best choice.

In my experience, Perl's WWW::Mechanize is easier to use. If you have experience with Perl, you may wish to use it.

Upvotes: 0

Francis Yaconiello
Francis Yaconiello

Reputation: 10919

Sounds like you could use curl, unless there is csrf protection on the form.

php script to navigate to a web page that has a web form on it, fill out the fields and click submit without human intervention.

If you have some time and want to try a fringe scripting language out:

Back in the day (highschool) we wrote autoit scripts to click google ads and got our accounts suspended =(

Autoit can control the cursor and keyboard input and do repetitive tasks

http://www.autoitscript.com/site/

Upvotes: 0

Gershon Herczeg
Gershon Herczeg

Reputation: 3054

curl is what you are looking for, look at this link http://php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

Upvotes: 3

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