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Date: Fri,  7 Oct 2005 03:01:01 -0400
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] webscript
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I would like to be able to write scripts like this:

=09load "http://apc-reset/outlets.htm"
=09find "yoshimi"
=09nearest option, set "Immediate Reboot"
=09submit

or like this:

=09load "http://www.fedex.com/Tracking"
=09find form
=09enter "792544024753"
=09submit
=09
=09if (find "No information") {
=09   select enclosing td
=09   print
=09} else if (find "Ship date") {
=09   select enclosing table
=09   select enclosing table
=09   print
=09} else {
=09   print ">>> Unexpected Results\n"
=09   print
=09}

Does anyone know of programs/languages that let you
script web sessions like that?  Searching around finds lots
of mentions of web scraping but no actual programs.

I have a rough idea of the general structure of the language
and grammar, and I think that libhtml does most of the
heavy lifting already.

Anyone interested in working on this?

Russ