Check web for new form and download

[Mo0C0w]

Hey guys!

First off I am in love with Autoit! I am the head QA at a software company and have used autoit for front end testing, even created an auto pilot training bot.

One of my other duties that I picked up here is year end. There are a lot of forms for year end (941,W-2, T4....etc) I have been manually checking the availability of these forms. I would like to scrape the government sites for new forms. Every state will have a completely different url and all of the elements are different.

Example: 

URL: http://www.odjfs.state.oh.us/forms/

Search:   <div id="SearchBox" style="margin: 2em 0 1em 0; float: left; clear: both;">

Keywords 1 -  specifications , Keyword 2 -  quarterly, Keyword 3 -  unemployment, Keyword 4 -  sui

Date (column) - 2021

Download Target - PDF

I am not sure how to go about this or if Autoit can handle this....first time looking into scraping. Any ideas or examples would be amazing. Thank you all in advance!! 

[Earthshine]

Look into the WebDriver UDF for browser automation. that should allow you to do what you want.

 

If by chance that does not do what you need there is always UIAutomation (can be used on browser or most any app)

Edited November 5, 2021 by Earthshine