Summary - Want to make a simple website form filler. The website is NOT mine and I cannot edit its source code. Don't know what tools/languages are needed. Would java, jsp, html be enough ?
Request - Please reconsider your decision to close or downvote. I only need to know if java is enough or not.
There is a form on a website, say for reserving a visit to only one dentist. You fill your details and the date and time you want to visit. Then, it tells you if an appointment can be made or not, somewhere in the webpage.
This web page is NOT protected by CAPTCHA. I don't want to enter my details all the time to look for a reservation. I want to make code to do it for me.
I want to make code which will -
1 - Fill the details into the form and "press" submit.
2 - Then, read the resulting page and find out if a reservation is
available or not. If yes, do something like maybe - pop up a GUI
message, send e-mail or whatever.
3 - Repeat the above steps every 5 hours or so.
What are the languages and tools I would need to do this job ? Would I need more than java, jsp and html (thats all i know now) to make such code ?
Thanks.
I will suggest you try CURL. That will make you solution more simple in my opinion.
You can execute HTTP GET/POST with CURL, which is enough to solve your problem. Give it a try, and if you get block you can ask a more specific question about CURL or HTTP.
Hope it helps.
IMO, If you really just want to fill up some forms to check a reservation, no need to code anything, why not just install a plugin, Selenium, record your actions there and just run it at specified times: http://docs.seleniumhq.org/
Sure.
You need a web server and a database on the back end.
Since you feel comfortable with Java, JSP/HTML would probably be an ideal solution.
IMHO...
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Is there any way in java to make code: Example if someone clicks on skipAd on adf.ly link Int will increase. Example 2: I click the button, it will take me to a adfly link. and when i click skipAd on adf.ly: in the app int will increase for 1(int++).
Is there any way to do that?
First of: StackOverflow hates it when people come here showing that they have taken zero effort to find a solution for the problem.
Secondly:
Your question is very unspecific.
Are you and your friend on the same network? If so, you might want to consider using ARP-Poisoning in order to inject custom JavaScript into the webpage that will function as an EventListener. Obviously this will only work if he is visiting AdFly via an HTTP connection and since Adfly-Links are generated with an HTTPS prefix, you will rarely find people using HTTP (despite the fact that they still don't enforce HTTPS, grumpf).
There are probably tons of other solutions but they will all involve tinkering with his/your webtraffic. And no offense, but I feel like you should probably learn some more Java before taking on such a big task.
More than in 'java' it would be easier to do it in 'JavaScript'. You'll have to monitor the onClick event of that SkipAd button and then you can increase your counter.
I advise you to make your question even more clearer in why-you-have-to-do-it department to avoid down votes
I have my client's e-shop, which is created by another company. I want to parse all the products and put them in an xml. I know how to get to the first page of each "brand" but I have difficulties passing the argument to change the page for the paginated results.
This is the e-shop "http://www.gialia.net.gr/ProductCatalog/20/CAR.aspx" that points to one brand.
When I user tamper-data on firefox I see that when you want to press the second-page of the results is posts the :
"__EVENTTARGET=ctl00%24wpmMain%24wp131820866%24wp512420601%24dpgTop%24ctl01%24ctl01"
the last string: "ct101" means go to page 2, If I change it to ct102 it goes to page 3 etc.
BUT i'm trying to create it as a GET request so I can create these parameters dynamically in my Java code and parse each responce. But when I create the url as:
http://www.gialia.net.gr/ProductCatalog/20/CAR.aspx?__EVENTTARGET=ctl00$wpmMain$wp131820866$wp512420601$dpgTop$ctl01$ctl02
I get no results.
Can someone please take a look and give me some suggestions?
The site you give us here is very poor in design concerning the search engines (SEO), and so the parse of the page one by one is too difficult.
To change page is make post back, and with javascript only. So you must do the same to move to the next page of the catalog, you need to make a full post back of the page with all the parameters.
Now, the page is so bad designed that the programmer have disable the __EVENTVALIDATION of the controls probably because he not let him do wrong things, so when you can tamper the data, but still you need to make post back. By simple type on the url one only parametre the code behind did not understand that is post back. You need to send and at least the Viewstate and the rest hidden parameters.
But isn't more easy to just get from your client access direct to the database and reads them from there ?
I am using wicket application to initiate my Java method in my code. I have the url as follows
http://localhost:8080/web/resources/org.apache.wicket.Application/StartMethod
I want to add an extra option at the end client=cutomser1
http://localhost:8080/web/resources/org.apache.wicket.Application/StartMethod?client=customer1
As I want these use the same code but for different customers
So when I run this URL from command promte it should fetch the Customer1 into my Java code
in this way..
String client = customer1
How can I implement this in Java. I mean I want to fetch this String name customer1
Wicket is strong in data binding and you should take advantage of that.
If you display in the browser data from Customer1, the Wicket knows that when you do requests from that page.
The translation of request parameters to variables happens behind the scene.
That is disconcerting at first but really powerful when used as intended.
I would suggest you select a good tutorial from the answer to this question and go through a couple of examples to see how things are done. This may take an afternoon but this will pay back for itself before the week is out.
I think I am a bit too late, but still I will say that you can use PageParameters in your page and you should make the page bookmarkable.
I'm trying to make something simple with Stripes. I've read and heard a lot about easiness of using this framework and about steep learning curve (i.e. learning is quite fast and productive).
But till this moment I can't even create the simplest HelloWorld with Stripes.
All examples I've found demonstrate functionality like: "click on the link --> see the result". When we click on the link special handler is called (which returns Resolution) and after that getters also works (because bean is instantiated).
But if I don't want a link but I want simple static information (for example, when I open StackOverflow I don't need to click a link, but I immediately see a list of questions) then it's something non-trivial for Stripes as it seems to me, because bean is not instantiated immediately.
How to fix that? Are there some special annotation or another technique?
Have anyone here tried Stripes and met the same problem? I'm realy frustrated, maybe I've missed something..
UPD: it's probably not clear because I haven't appended any code. So I describe a bit more. In order to reproduce my situation it's enough to get the code from QuickStart and try to retrieve text from ActionBean getters (currently, text is hard-coded in jsp). The text will appear only after you press the button (i.e. after handler does some work). But after you open the page first time you won't see the text.
Are you familiar with the MVC pattern( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller )? One of the key parts of the MVC is you never ever call the JSP directly. You don't go to www.myservername.com/myjsp.jsp. Instead, you go to www.myservername.com/mything.action. Stripes will do some processing, set some stuff, and then send you on to the specific JSP.
From your question, it just sounds like you are trying to go directly to JSPs. Stop doing that, and you will get along much nicer with stripes.
As for what happens when you just go to www.myservername.com, you go to the welcome-file in your web.xml. You do something like this
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
(yes you break the rule about no jsp directly)
Then in index.jsp you make it a 1 line file like so:
<jsp:forward page="myaction.action"/>
And the first time someone goes to your site, they hit index.jsp, which sends them to an action, which populates stuff and forwards them on. In no other cases will the user directly get to a jsp, and the index file is nothing but a forward to a real action.
I finished first year comp sci. And i want to spend some time working on the things they have taught us in the first year (lot of java and a bit of C)...
Anyways as a project, i wanted to do something i need, and what i need is a program to run through my movie folder and get the ratings and some basic info from IMDB...
I'm not sure where to start, i think i can handle the parts about reading the folder names, getting rid of the junk from the name to get the actual name and stuff.. Also i can handle the GUI but i don't know how i can talk to IMDB... what steps should i take to complete this project. I have about a month before school starts and i want to finish it before then...Thanks for all the input
EDIT:
Also can you guys tell me what i should start with and then move on to what? As in should i start with the GUI first or have the code that reads in the folder names and filters the names... I only wrote one program as an assignment in school and it was basically outlined step by step so i just wanna know what i should start with
You've made a very good start by decomposing the problem, identifying the kind of components you need and focusing on (an important) one that you don't know how to do.
The IMDB API is documented here and you can see that it amounts to sending simple HTTP requests with some paramters and getting back some formatted data, possibly as a JSON string.
You will find libraries to help with doing those two things. Even if there are public domain wrappers for accessing IMDB I'd recommend attempting to use general purpose HTTP and JSON libraries - that's probably a better educational exercise.
I'm the author of the IMDB API you are dicussing ;) I limit requests to 30 per hour to stop people hammering. I have yet to have a legitimate reason to perform more requests than that. My suggestion to anyone is to write a batch script to perform 1 request every 2minutes and then leave it going for a few hours overnight. Then you only have to perform a request on demand whenever you add a new movie.