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Re: How do I click on a link in a webpage?
From: Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:22:35 -0500
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:22:35 -0500
On 10/18/06, Rahul Misra <Rahul.Misra_at_sun.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> I am new to curl. Have used many tools like httpunit, htmlunit before.
> What I want to do is:
> 1. Go to a webpage
curl -o page.html http://someserver.domain.com
> 2. Search for web links on that page
> 3. Select one specific link
url=`grep "something on the page" | commands to edit out anything
that's not the url`
> 4. Click on that link
curl -o newpage.html $url
It's that middle bit that's a bugger to work out, sometimes. Luckily
there's a lot of helpful information here:
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html
Ralph Mitchell
Received on 2006-10-18