Posted by R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah on 01/18/08 13:09

On Jan 18, 2:52 am, mr_marcin <mar...@cme.pl> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does anybody have some idea how to input some text into inputbox on
> one page, than press some button on that page, that will load another
> page, and finally read the responde? Suppose I want to write a price
> comparision engine, where I would like to parse shops website for
> price each time user wants.
>
> I have found similar feature in Symfony framework, called sfBrowser
> (or sfTestBrowser). These are made for automated functional testing,
> but should provide the functinality I am requesting.
>
> The question is: will this be efficient enough? Maybe there are other
> ways to achieve this? Of course I can always try to make it more
> manually - look for some pattern in url (search is usually done via
> GET), and parse output html.

1. If you're looking for client tools http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/
2. Web scraping with cURL or HTTPClient class
3. Look for the Web services (SOAP, XML, etc)

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