Autofill a web page

[Peter Haworth]

My initial thought on this was to render the web page URL in an LC browser
object, fill in the form's fields with some sort of LC scripting, and send
a mouse click action to the form's Submit button.  Is that impractical?

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:25 AM Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

>
> On Jul 9, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Devin.  I was meaning I wanted to do this in a Livecode app so
> > sounds like there is hope.  I will check out the links you sent.
> >
> > Another complication is that the form includes a Captcha code so that
> will
> > have to be supplied manually.  Off topic, but am I the only one that
> finds
> > the majority of these Captcha codes pretty much unreadable, especially on
> > tablets/phones?  I guess there are different types of code, I'm referring
> > to the ones that are blurry photos of house numbers/street names.
>
> I haven’t ever had to deal with Captcha images, but it might be as
> straightforward as finding image data in the web form and rendering it in a
> LC image object. It might be an interesting exercise.
>
> D
>
>
> Devin Asay
> Office of Digital Humanities
> Brigham Young University
>
>
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