Script to automate login

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hi,
I am in desperate need of a script to help log in to a mail website. Currently I have to access a mail system through a web browser (safari or other) using a two-step log-in. On the first page I have to put in a username and then a password composed of a fixed code and a random string generated by a key-fob that I carry. I then hit return and am directed to a new page where I put in a username and fixed password, hit enter and then am directed to my in-box.

Unfortunately, the site logs me off after only a few minutes of inactivity, so I end up spending most of my time doing this incredibly cumbersome log-in routine all the time - sometimes even after reading only one email. I am told that there is no way to pull my emails down to my laptop using an email client with this system.

So, I would like to create a script which would

  1. Open a browser window and navigate to login page 1
  2. Enter predefined username in field 1
  3. Enter predefined password string in field 2
  4. Invite user to enter string to append to password in field 2
  5. Select return
  6. Wait for next page to appear
  7. Enter predefined username string in field 1
  8. Enter predefined password in field 2
  9. Select (click) submit button

Any thoughts greatly appreciated!

Marcel

#2

Marcel,
Have you tried system based scripting that can be feasible.

#3

Instead of trying to do the script the fill ins for you (you have to wait for the script is ready) isn’t a real time saving solution I guess. Well if you can find a URL that is always the same like some web mail clients have a fixed URL for inbox. You can have a script that checks this URL and refresh your page every one minute. Or if the page is older than one minute, you could check every 5 seconds the URL. if the URL hasn’t changed the last 12 times (one minute has passed) you give a page refresh.