# Fill out the login form
form = page.forms.first
form.vb_login_username = "username"
form.vb_login_md5password = "password" form.do ="login"
form.s = ""
Hi Colin, I can't tell you how to do it in mechanize, but I can say
that what you are trying to do is super easy in Watir: http://openqa.org/watir
Watir (Web Application Testing In Ruby) is primarily used for driving
browser-based test automation, but it has a wonderful API that makes
what you describe very easy. Originally the only choice of browser to
drive was IE, but now the FireWatir and SafariWatir projects are
getting strong as well.
Best of luck, whatever solution you go with,
Jeff
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On Jun 13, 2:53 pm, "Colin Summers" <blade...@gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, Ruby in general newbie, but I did the whole shovell project for
RoR, so I felt I was getting somewhere...
I am fooling around trying to make a spider (scraper?) to pull content
off the Forum I read all the time so that I can read it offline.
It seemed like mechanize is exactly what I want. But I try this:
# Fill out the login form
form = page.forms.first
form.vb_login_username = "username"
form.vb_login_md5password = "password"
form.do ="login"
form.s = ""
Shows the form password value as being an md5password. Are you creating an
md5 hash out of your password before supplying it to mechanize? If not then
I would assume that is the problem.
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On 6/13/07, jfry <jeff.fry@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Colin, I can't tell you how to do it in mechanize, but I can say
that what you are trying to do is super easy in Watir: http://openqa.org/watir
Watir (Web Application Testing In Ruby) is primarily used for driving
browser-based test automation, but it has a wonderful API that makes
what you describe very easy. Originally the only choice of browser to
drive was IE, but now the FireWatir and SafariWatir projects are
getting strong as well.
Best of luck, whatever solution you go with,
Jeff
On Jun 13, 2:53 pm, "Colin Summers" <blade...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, Ruby in general newbie, but I did the whole shovell project for
> RoR, so I felt I was getting somewhere...
>
> I am fooling around trying to make a spider (scraper?) to pull content
> off the Forum I read all the time so that I can read it offline.
>
> It seemed like mechanize is exactly what I want. But I try this:
>
> require 'rubygems'; require 'mechanize'
>
> agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
> page = agent.get('http://dapo.org/forums/index.php'\)
>
> pp page
>
> puts "\n\n trying to login... \n\n"
>
> # Fill out the login form
> form = page.forms.first
> form.vb_login_username = "username"
> form.vb_login_md5password = "password"
> form.do ="login"
> form.s = ""
>
> page = agent.submit(form)
>
> pp page
>
> # pull down a thread
> page = agent.get('http://dapo.org/forums/archive/index.php?t-2293.html'\)
>
> pp page
>
> And it doesn't login (blank page for that last get). Clues?
>
> Thanks,
> --Colin