HELP Clicking Button

ronstylistic386 · Aug 30, 2011

Hi

I am a newbie on httpwebrequest and I want to know how to click a button using httpwebrequest.

please help. the button name="submit" id="submit"

shudogg · Aug 30, 2011

You don't click buttons using HTTPWebRequest!

The code you gave was for a submit button, which would be located inside a form. You need to construct a POST string to submit using HTTPWebRequest.

Use Firefox and HTTP Live Headers plugin, or Fiddler, or HTTPDebugger... anything to capture packets. After you fill the form and click the submit button, wait for the next page to finish loading and then stop capturing packets. Look for the packet that contains your action. It will have the url your posting to, and the data that was posted, as well as header information..

You are "emulating" this.

Just like on wordpress blogs, bots using HTTPWebRequest are actually POSTing the data to wp-comments.php even though the user is on somesite.com/blog-post/.

Just google "visual basic net httpwebrequest fill form" or something like that, and you will find your answers

NTG98 · Sep 2, 2011

How would someone click a button that appears to be somehow loaded in javascript? I've done standard POST form automation, but in terms of actually going in and simulating a user, well, I'm a bit lacking in that area.

Here is the exact page I am trying to automate a signup for if anyone would care to look: https://www.sparknotes.com/account/signup

I want to click that big "Create Account" button, but it doesn't look like a normal POST form that I see on blogs or forums, so I want to learn a language that allows me to tackle sites like this.

Hydrogen · Sep 12, 2011

I checked this over and I didn't see any 'Real' counter-measures in place to prevent bot signups.

Here is what I found. I used Fiddler but you can use this or LiveHTTPHeaders Plugin for Firefox

I COMMENTED everything so you would know what it was / used for

Code:

https: //www[DOT]sparknotes[DOT]com/account/signup <- FULL URL OF THE FORM SUBMISSION (REPLACE [DOT] with .)

POST /account/signup  <- PATH FORM WAS SUBMITTED TO

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.1) <- THIS IS FIREFOX USER AGENT
Referer: https: //www[DOT]sparknotes[DOT]com/account/signup <-- SET THIS AS REFERRER (REPLACE [DOT] with .)

email=(URL ENCODED EMAIL ADDRESS)
&email_confirm=SAME AS ABOVE
&nickname=DESIRED USERNAME
&password=PASSWORD 'MUST CONFORM TO THEIR PASSWORD STANDARDS'
&password_confirm=SAME PASSWORD AS ABOVE
&birthday%5Bmonth%5D=REPLACE WITH MONTH DIGIT
&birthday%5Bday%5D=REPLACE WITH DAY DIGIT
&birthday%5Byear%5D=REPLACE WITH 4 DIGIT YEAR
&gender=EITHER M OR F for male or female
&submit.x=179 BS MOUSE LOCATION WHEN CLICKING THE SUBMIT BUTTON LEAVE AS IS
&submit.y=10 BS MOUSE LOCATION WHEN CLICKING THE SUBMIT BUTTON LEAVE AS IS
&country=TWO LETTER COUNTRY CODE (IE. US)
&zipcode=+5 DIGIT ZIP CODE
&display_email=on USE 'on' or NOTHING to enable or disable this feature
&notify_friend=on USE 'on' or NOTHING to enable or disable this feature
&newsletter=on USE 'on' or NOTHING to enable or disable this feature
&sponsor=on USE 'on' or NOTHING to enable or disable this feature
&social_link= LEAVE BLANK

hotleatherdreams · Sep 15, 2011

Do you guys have access to Web Browser controls?? (just the first paragraph is copied from v b for ums...)First of all the webbrowser control is not one of the controls that come by default in the control box. All you have to do to add it there is to press Ctrl + T key or (Project -> Components using the menu). Once in the components select window, scroll down and check the box next to "Mixrosoft Internet Cuntrols" and click ok.

I use vb6 so i have no clue if that ^^ means anything to you. Anyhow, WebBrowser1 internet control gives you a full IE browser to do with as you wish. From there its easy street... I am just going to thow out some code that has worked for me in the past, pm any questions, and check this out, its where i got started scraping MANY years ago... help: //wwjd vb-helper c0m/howto_read_freecell.html <-- that will tell you how to click that juicy create account button in any windows machine

Code:

For Each a In Me.webbrowser1.Document.All.getelementbyname("user1")
   a.Value = textbox1.text ' might set the username from text1 to an input for some website
Next a
Me.webbrowser1.Document.Form(2).submit ' this might submit the form you want on that sparkything (3rd form on the page)
With WebBrowser1.Document.All("Submit").Click ' if your lucky enough to find a lonely submit button
' SOME API TO MOVE THE MOUSE AND CLICK IT IF YER DESPERATE - go ask dan appleman if u need help
        Call SetCursorPos((VARIABLEA + 400), (VARIABLEB + 390))  ' move the mouse
        mouse_event MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, 0&, 0&, cButt, dwEI 'left mouse click
        mouse_event MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, 0&, 0&, cButt, dwEI

Hydrogen · Sep 15, 2011

My head just exploded reading that you 'suggested' even loading the browser control. -- Ouch I need to go lay down after that.

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