I'm brand new to both coding, and this website. After digging through search results here, I couldn't find the answer I'm looking for.
What I'm trying to do is create a batch file that will open a website (like gmail.com for example) and automatically fill in fields like the username and password ones.
I can get it to open the site, but I don't know how to get it to fill out the fields for me.
Is this even doable in .bat, or should I look elsewhere?
Finally, if you don't have the time to give me clear instructions, pointing me towards documentation that can would be highly appreciated.
Thank you,
Related
Hi guys im brand new and not a developer but I need a way for users when they go to my site they can upload there video and there would be a option for them to add there first name and email so when the video is uploaded the database can keep all the data together.
Ideally I want this as easy as possible for the user and this would just go to our youtube channel or any video platform will work.Any advice would be great!
Please provide more information like what platform are you using ?.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
The simple way to achieve with web technologies like (Php,node,jave) is maintain the basic user information into the sessions, and whenever it's necessary use this information.
You need to get some knowledge about the system you are using. You particularly need:
access to the server
to know the server type
access to the database
to know the database type
where the relevant files are
After you have gathered all these information, you at least know what you do not know. The next step is to gather information about how you can implement the feature you need. Look at it like at a puzzle with many small pieces. If you are patient-enough, at the end you will resolve the puzzle.
Sorry about the broad question. I'm just curious if someone could point me in the right direction.
Say there's a database of contact information, and there's a site where you can input a persons name and it brings you to a page with all of their information on that database. How does this happen exactly? The server would have to dynamically create this page, but does it have a generic format that it just fills with the information? And how does this happen?
Like you said, this is a an extremely broad question. It could be either way. The server could generate the entire contents dinamically, or it could be "filling the blanks" into a preformatted layout.
Google some PHP basic tutorials. That should give you a good idea about how this "dynamism" works. Sorry but your question is too broad to ellaborate more.
The server would dynamically create the page using PHP and SQL. There is a quick tutorial at http://www.mysqltutorial.org/php-querying-data-from-mysql-table/ that shows how it would be setup.
If I understood your question right, you are asking things like how this page was created, for example, in which case it can be as simple as a basic PHP and SQL combination. You can check an example on the w3sschools website:
Try it yourself example
There would be special place holders for the data and a query will extract the data and put it into the given place holders, please note, you can also use loops to add things like tables, fetch through multiple rows and so on.
My issue is that at my current job, we have to go to 7 different sites, depending on the carrier, to find out a part number through a model number. Each site allows you to search a database with a model number and if it is found it you can see the part number for it. This really helps us out, but I'm looking for a way to make it more convienient for us. Each site requires a login. How can I search all the sites, sites databases at once or how can I make something, webpage or program, that has a tab for each site and when clicked it takes me right to the search feature of the site. Any suggestions are appreciated. I really need to be pointed in the right direction. I almost forgot, if you know a site or program that does this for hvac part or appliances please let me know!
You won't be able to integrate directly with each site most likely, so you're stuck having to login to each and do your work.
But there is some hope!
Check out Selenium (http://docs.seleniumhq.org/) for automating web tasks. For example, you should be able to "record" yourself logging in and clicking to a page - and then in the future you just run a script and Selenium will do it for you. Should save a few steps.
You'd still need a tab open per site, but it should help.
I am currently designing a reviews site for video games similar to gamespot am wondering where and if there is an online database that contains information such as name, publisher, release date etc with an API. I dont really want to have to enter each title manually or let users enter the title manually.
Where do these large sites get information like this? I wouldn't think it would be manually. I know for movies IMDB exists.
How would I go about adding it to my database?
Thanks
May I point you to web scraping?
Be sure to read the section legal issues and on well-behaved bots.
There's always Amazon and their product advertising API. Some older, but interesting code snippets can be found on this page.
If you know Perl, there is an amzing module called WWW::Mechanize
Pretty much you can write a script to get to any website and grab any data you need.
So for example you can go to www.gamespot.com, get list like the one below and put them in your database.
http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=1029&mode=all&sort=views&dlx_type=all&sortdir=asc&official=all&tag=games%3Bfooter%3Bmore
I'm using the CMS Made Simple platform; which I'm not very familiar with!
The site has a secure frontend, which contains a document library for members. Files are stored outside the document root and links are generated by the CMS so you should only be able to get the documents if you're logged in.
At first glance the setup works fine; however certain PDFs uploaded in this fashion are corrupt upon download, and line endings in text files aren't preserved.
Sorry if this is a bit vague, I'm hoping someone has come across a similar problem but any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Rich
You should check which module/tag is handling the download / upload.
Are you sure they´re intact when uploaded?
Check for headers, and content size calculation, try different browsers and different methods to force the download.