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Zhe Hu
Zhe Hu

Reputation: 4007

auto fill web form with dynamic data

I am trying to create shipping labels for a lot of different customers by filling forms on ups website. Is there a programmatic way of doing this?

It is different from the usual auto-fill web form. Because the name, address, etc. fields aren't filled with "constants". 100 customers needs 100 different forms.

Before I dig into python-mechanize, or autoit IE.au3, is there an easier way doing this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1567

Answers (1)

bfour
bfour

Reputation: 160

UPDATE 2019-09-09: Generally, would no longer recommend FF.au3 unless you're very much into AutoIt or have tons of legacy code. I'd rather suggest using Selenium with a "proper" programming language.

You could check out FF.au3 for AutoIt. Together with FireFox and MozRepl it allows for web automation, including dynamic websites/forms.

The feature-set should be sufficient for your task (eg. XPath for content extraction and for filling out forms, but just have a look at the link and you'll get an idea of what it can do). It's also fairly easy to use.

The downside is that it's not the most performant approach and I've encountered a bug, but that doesn't say much. Overall it did work well for me for small or medium-ish projects.

Setup:

Upvotes: 1

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