bruce wrote: > [Quoting "david"...]
> > I am trying to automate navigating to urls (all from a txt file) 1 at a time > > in Firefox and then killing firefox before navigating to the next. I think I > > might have to use PyXPCOM to do this but I have never used this package and > > cannot find any good resources on the net to help me along. Anyone have an > > idea as to how I would do this or have any good resources they could point > > me to? > just what are you trying to do... are you trying to drive some functionality > of firefox? are you trying to parse web files?? There are some plausible reasons for automating browsers rather than writing a script to download, parse, interpret, submit, and so on, not limited to things like getting good visual feedback, access to in-browser features that may be necessary to successfully access or interpret content, avoiding issues with server-side browser checks (possibly not limited to mere "user agent" testing), and a hopefully intuitive and sufficient model of the page to get and to produce the right information. > more information might allow someone to shed additional thoughts on a > solution.. Well, PyXPCOM didn't support out-of-process automation last time I checked, and I haven't read anything on the PyXPCOM list [1] that would suggest otherwise. Meanwhile, there is support for automation of browsers like Internet Explorer and Konqueror [2] which may or may not be good enough for the questioner's needs, although the latter requires some non-standard components before it works, unfortunately. Paul [1] http://listserv.activestate.com/mailman/listinfo/pyxpcom [2] http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/qtxmldom.html http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/kpartplugins.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
