How to Web Scrape with AutoHotkey: Setting values and clicking links in IE

Setting values and clicking links in IE

Setting values and clicking links in IEThis 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.

Web Scraping with AutoHotKey 102-Setting values and clicking links in IE

Setting values and clicking links in IE

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

Web scraping

 (web harvesting or web data extraction) is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites. Usually, such software programs

Web Scraping Example with AutoHotkey-Scraping website to determine status

Web Scraping Example with AutoHotkey

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.

Web Scraping example with AutoHotkey

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.