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This is the second part of my tutorials on automating logging into websites. In this example we will use AutoHotkey to login to Amazon.
In this script I demonstrate using AutoHotkey to login to amazon.com by using Web scraping. This is just a demonstration of how to work-through filling out a form on a web page. The possibilities / uses are endless! Here are links to the use in the video:
Example script I created to login to Amazon
This is the second video in this series. Here we practice setting values and clicking links in IE on a page (kind of reverse of Web Scraping with AutoHotkey however I don’t believe anybody has coined a decent term yet) and clicking links.
Word of warning- some pages want you to fire an “event”. Sometimes this is tricky. Given this video is set to an introductory level I only touch a little on the subject.
The syntax for writing the writing the code can be found on my first post here. There is also an AutoHotKey forum thread you might wish to review here. Setting values and clicking links in IE is pretty straight forward
The term Web Scraping is well known but I’ve yet to hear much talk about “Web Pasting”. In this Web Scraping Example with AutoHotkey video I demonstrate how I helped my Real Estate agent automate checking the status of a house on a website.
Here is a second version where, depending on the status of the home, I write a follow-up email either with an email from Outlook or within the website via COM.
Being able to, programatically, navigate to an Internet page and scrape the contents in a reliable fashion is best things invented since sliced bread! I spent years manually going through pages and copying/pasting contents from IE to Excel then spent even more time trying to clean it up. Done properly you can get the data very, very close to how it is on the web with little effort.
The below video walks through using AutoHotKey to obtain basic values from a Web page. It also demonstrates a script I wrote that helps write the syntax (yes I’m that lazy!) The AutoHotKey script I wrote is further down this page and can also be found on the AHK forum here.
In this beginning tutorial I how to:
1) get a pointer to IE
2) navigate to a page
3) get text from a page
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