This class can be used to retrieve Web pages emulating a browser.
It can retrieve a given page, parse it and proceed retrieving the pages or content that would result of clicking on given links or submitting forms in the initial page.
The class provides functions to locate the links to click or form to submit either specifying a Xpath expression or searching page elements by attribute.
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Browser |
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Retrieve Web pages emulating a browser |
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Freely Distributable |
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June 2009
Number 3
Prize: One book of choice by Manning |
Sometimes you need to emulate the access of an user to a site, either for retrieving information, or for testing if a site is working properly.
This class makes it easy to build scripts that emulate the access of users to a sequence of pages, by clicking on links and submitting forms.
Manuel Lemos |
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