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Author Topic: automating web procedures  (Read 2581 times)

kalos

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automating web procedures
« on: April 26, 2011, 11:40 AM »
hello

I have a website that I send sms from and instead of opening my web-browser, login to the website, clicking the 'compose new message' button, typing the phone number, typing the message text, clicking the 'send' button...

I want to do this:

hit a global hotkey that will open two boxes, in the one I will type the phone number (with a drop down menu of recently used) and in the other I will type the message text and then click 'send'... and it will do the job!

is there any easy way to do this?

thanks

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Re: automating web procedures
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2011, 07:22 PM »
Don't know of an easy way.  May be something at the following will turn out to be of some use:

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic10224.html

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Re: automating web procedures
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2011, 07:48 PM »
Which website are you using?

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Re: automating web procedures
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2011, 08:03 PM »
If the site has an API, then it's a lot easier to do. Otherwise, it relies on scraping, parsing, and then web automation, which is all inherently unreliable.
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