RogerRabbitsClone 0 Posted January 9, 2011 so i wanted to create a really simple, almost retarded web crawler. i mean REALLY simple. i started with this: $LowerLimit = 7 $UpperLimit = 777 $RandomNumber = Random($LowerLimit,$UpperLimit,1) shellexecute ("iexplorer");google is homepage sleep (3000) send ($randomnumber & " xxx") send ("{TAB}");send tab about 20 times send ("{enter}") sleep (3000) then repeat the send tab, send enter a bunch of times hopefully click a bunch of external links. big surprise, this did not work to well. heres my question, can i make this easier for myself of i just throw together some _IE functions? ive never used them, and i want to keep this a 1-2 day project because its part of something larger. i kinda blew through them but couldnt find one that explicitly said "this will find <a href...> and extract the link. is this something i have to do, or is there a UDF for this already? or is _IEbodyreadHTML/text what im looking for and im just to stupid to apply them? anything appreciated. <--a good way to start you day Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DoubleMcLovin 1 Posted January 9, 2011 Here is a "smart" way of going to the google homepage, and searching for something. Here is a little example of the _IE... functions that fits your needs. The most important thing you need to do when trying to find the IE object to interact with is finding the <form name=""> line in the source code and getting that name. #include <IE.au3> $value = 1 $oIE = _IECreate("http://google.com",1) If $oIE = 0 Then ;failed instance of IE, just try again in most cases or manually kill all processes of IE. You can expand on this if you want. ConsoleWrite ("Failed _IECreate") Exit EndIf $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "f") ;finds the form containing the search bar and button $search = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm,"q") ;the search bar _IEFormElementSetValue ($search,$value) $oButtons = _IETagNameGetCollection ($oIE, "input") For $oButton In $oButtons If $oButton.name = "btnG" Then _IEAction ($oButton, "click") EndIf Next Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DaleHohm 65 Posted January 9, 2011 Just look at the example for _IELinkGetCollection in the helpfile. Dale Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curlMSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object modelAutomate input type=file (Related)Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded Better Better?IE.au3 issues with Vista - WorkaroundsSciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead?Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble Share this post Link to post Share on other sites