[Novalug] Need to automate a web browser session

[Mark Smith]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:01:03PM +0000, Jeff Stoner wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Jim Ide wrote:
> 
> > I want to automate the process of visiting a
> > particular web site, clicking certain links,
> > downloading files, etc.  What tools have you
> > used that do this?  I have used Selenium, but
> > it seems to be intended more for web app testing
> > than for automating web tasks.
> >
> > Requirements:
> >
> > * must run in Linux and MS Windows
> > * must be free
> > * must be fairly easy for non-techies to use and understand
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> 
> Scriting using Perl and LWP but that falls outside the range of "fairly 
> easy for non-techies."

"fairly easy for non-techies" falls into the recording aspects though.
kinda neat actually.

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