Accessing Internet Commands through a Script

[Trogdor]

I need to write a script that will perform the following actions (it could use lynx or whatever):

-go to a website
-fill in some fields
-refresh the page

Are their any programs that can allow one to access these functions through a bash script?

[jim mcnamara]

What exactly are you trying to do? Download data?

Assume you have a file - src that has the keystrokes you want

lynx www.somesite.com -accept_all_cookies -cmd_script=src

[freakmn]

Just curious, you don't do Gentoo (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=41214), do you? j/k

[Stuka]

Not sure about bash, but I'm fairly certain that Perl has a web form module that will do that kind of thing.

[Trogdor]

I do gentoo. But this compydore isn't running gentoo.

I'll look into perl.

Here is what I am trying to do (it's for my brother):

- go to a forum
- log in
- go to a profile page in the forum
- refresh until the script terminates


(increase the hit count of a profile. Above 11000.)

[Stuka]

OK, I think your brother needs a non-online life! :rolleyes: