Is this possible?

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#1

Is it possible to program an applescript to press a specific button of a specific website? And if so, how do I do this?

cheers,
denns

#2

It is possible if you use Apple’s GUI scripting or Extra Suites from http://www.kanzu.com That said, it would be fairly unpredictable especially if you plan to distribute the script.

#3

Follow this thread and you will find some additional help:

http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?t=3986 :wink:

#4

I’ve followed the threads regarding javascript and I found a javascript that automatically does a search pattern for ‘applescript’ on the macscripter.net forum. Only problem it’s for IE. Let me explain what I need. I am trying to access the site ‘https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2’. But everytime I access it via an applescript I get a ‘…because of security implications your browser is not aloud to reload the page (paraphrased)’. What I want is to be able to load this page anytime I want; and not to get this error. I think it’s possible, thru a javascript, to press the button (on the GRC website) to activate this feature. However I don’t have the programming smarts to do this at this time. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

cheers,
denns

#5

This line of code opens the URL everytime for me…

open location "https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2"
#6

I have given the wrong address: here’s the new one ‘Shields UP!! — System Error’. It allows you to load once (I think) and then the security error comes up. If I go to ‘GRC | ShieldsUP! — Internet Vulnerability Profiling  ’ and press 'All Service Ports" button it works fine.

cheers,
denns

#7

Does the part of the URL after the question mark change from one visit to the next? It might be some type of authentication mechanism.

#8

No it doesn’t. When I press the ‘All Service Ports’ button this url comes up ‘https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2’ and the page loads properly. The numbers after the ? always seem to stay the same although I havn’t checked more that 4 times ion a row. When I use the same url as per your example ‘open location "https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2’ a browser suppress page is loaded.

cheers,
denns

#9

Let’s go:

tell application "Internet Explorer"
	do script "document.forms[0]['7'].click()"
end tell

If you control-click the image “All Service Ports” and pick “open image in new window”, you will see its name in your location bar: “pa_asp.gif”.
If you control-click the page and choose “see code”, you can search for “pa_asp.gif”, and you will see that this is a “input type image” within the only form in the page. Its name is “7”. So:
document.forms[0][‘7’] // equal to
document.forms[0].elements[5] // 5 = index of input-type-image in the form
click() // that is, a click

#10

Thanks JJ for the code. Can we change it so it works in Safari?

cheers,
denns

#11

I think we can’t. Unfortunatelly, Safari’s javascript engine is not a finished work, and js-applescript support is a work in progress… Anyway, if you wish take a look, it’s easy:

tell app "Safari"
     do JavaScript "whatever" in document 1
end tell

You can also try Omniweb, which recently implemented this feature and has a similar syntax…

#12

Thanks JJ for the help.

cheers,
denns