Re: [Pharo-users] Web browsing automation

2016-05-04 Thread Stephan Eggermont
On 04/05/16 17:44, Grigory Hatsevich wrote: I have a problem installing Beach Parasol. I follow the guidelines from http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/Parasol.html/Wiki and Pharo says that WAKomEncoded is unknown variable. Sorry about that, that's a text that is outdated. The ZnServerAdapter version sh

Re: [Pharo-users] Web browsing automation

2016-05-04 Thread Stephan Eggermont
On 04/05/16 13:04, Grigory Hatsevich wrote: Suppose I have a web page with 50 small photos; when I click on a photo, appears a window where I can further click on a link to open a full profile of the person on a photo. I need to open a full profile for every person in that page, each in a separat

Re: [Pharo-users] Web browsing automation

2016-05-04 Thread Cédrick Béler
Soup is quite easy to use (event if I would prefer an API that uses jQuery/CSS likes navigation selectors. Easier way is doing it interactively (in a debugger). Just to give an example so that you can start quickly, I just did something to scrap info from this web site db-ip. Info is in a table

Re: [Pharo-users] Web browsing automation

2016-05-04 Thread Cédrick Béler
I think you have several possibilities : 1. testing user interactions by real click automations: don’t know what is up todays but there were Albatross back in 2006 [1] or SeasideTesting [2]. Probably, there are other options. 2. Simulate client requests programmatically. You could do that in Zin

Re: [Pharo-users] Web browsing automation

2016-05-04 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
My project is basically a unification of python and pharo by allowing pharo to use python libraries. That means that one would have to have knowledge of python and the python library used. Its a simple socket bridge with which pharo can communicate with python and say "hey python do this for me an

Re: [Pharo-users] Web browsing automation

2016-05-04 Thread Grigory Hatsevich
Thanks. I will be happy with either way - clicks automation or "retrieve-html/parse/extract/download/repeat"; I just want to find the most convenient way (e.g. quick and simple). I do not have any experience with html parsing; maybe you could point at some relevant examples / tutorial? Pe

Re: [Pharo-users] Web browsing automation

2016-05-04 Thread Peter Uhnák
As far as I know: Pharo has event recorder that helps automate within image… however the bigger problem here is interaction with the environment, which is a big problem cross-platform. This is all assuming that you _must_ click on it and you can't just retrieve-html/parse/extract/download/repeat