Automate firefox

[Bert]

Please go here for the latest on Automating FireFox:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=95595

Edited May 26, 2009 by Volly

[Linux]

Hi!

this is a very interesting aspect of autoit.

I have searched for this a lot! and found nothing. please post your translated post.

thank you in advance.

[AdmiralAlkex]

Any volunteers to do a real translation to english?? That could be really useful someday if I ever abandon my Norwegian friend (Opera)

[GtaSpider]

Hello

You should download ff.au3 and MozLab and then u can use the Functions

The functions are explained in english in Sourcecode.

Your Spider

[Stilgar]

Hello,

I'm the author of this FF.au3 and I try to translate the documentation this weekend.

Stilgar

[Greenhorn]

This was found today, but it is in German. I'm using google to translate it. Here is the link:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...en&ie=UTF-8

... you may better take LEO for translation -> http://dict.leo.org/

Greetz

Greenhorn

[AdmiralAlkex]

Hello,

I'm the author of this FF.au3 and I try to translate the documentation this weekend.

Stilgar

I know there will be many which will appreciate it, thx!

[ludocus]

wow, Interesting!

Edited May 9, 2008 by ludocus

[gtype]

heh, with a little luck, you just saved my day. thanks

[Stilgar]

I've started the translation of the documentation of the FF.au3 (still in beta).

I hope I can made it complete the next days.

The newest version is here:

http://www.thorsten-willert.de/Software/Au...h/index_ff.html

Stilgar

[Stilgar]

I'm sorry I haven't time to do the english translation.

But I completed the german one and I think the english "google" translation is readable, too muttley

FF.au3 Documentation

and I've added support for frames:

FF.au3

and a tool to analyze the forms and links of a page:

with this you can create commands (or a simple script), too.

FF-Page Analyzer

Stilgar

Edited July 20, 2008 by Stilgar

[junkew]

Very nice.

Is it possible to listen to events that occur within firefox and catch them in AutoIt ?

Now we come very close to beeing able what tools like WinRunner and QuickTestPro can do.

This way we have multiple browser support with AutoIt

Reading some more references will give some additional background on how it works.

The basic thoughts on the concept: http://www.croczilla.com/jssh

Future thoughts where mozilla is going : http://blogs.activestate.com/shanec/2008/0...replacemen.html

[Szhlopp]

Ich verwende www.systransoft.com für meine Übersetzung.

[Garp99HasSpoken]

Could FF.au3 be used to save the status of the opened tabs when you exit or FF crashes,

and then reload those tabs next time FireFox opens?

I hate losing my tabs if I need to shutdown FF or do a reboot. My tabs have current things working I'm on.

I'm a newbie here so I know attempting this on my own will be over my head.

[NELyon]

Could FF.au3 be used to save the status of the opened tabs when you exit or FF crashes,

and then reload those tabs next time FireFox opens?

I hate losing my tabs if I need to shutdown FF or do a reboot. My tabs have current things working I'm on.

I'm a newbie here so I know attempting this on my own will be over my head.

Firefox 3 has that built in

[Garp99HasSpoken]

That's not helpful! At least provide some direction with your statement.

I see no settings in Options --> Main or Tabs or Advanced

If you know of somewhere else...

There used to be an add-on in FF2 for saving the tabs but it no longer works for FF3.

[NELyon]

Whenever you try to close your firefox window with more than one tab open, It asks you if you want to save your tabs.

[Stilgar]

Very nice.

Is it possible to listen to events that occur within firefox and catch them in AutoIt ?

Now we come very close to beeing able what tools like WinRunner and QuickTestPro can do.

This way we have multiple browser support with AutoIt

Reading some more references will give some additional background on how it works.

The basic thoughts on the concept: http://www.croczilla.com/jssh

Future thoughts where mozilla is going : http://blogs.activestate.com/shanec/2008/0...replacemen.html

The FF.au3 works currently with FireFox (and Flock) over a TCP (telnet) connection via MozLab (MozRepl), it's basicly the same thing like croczilla.

I'm not sure if you can catch a event over this connection, but you can try to send a Javascript to FireFox witch catches all events from the current page and receive them via a var from MozRepl.

@Garp99HasSpoken:

Yes you can do this, but I think the build-in version is easier to handle.

[Stilgar]

New version of the FF.au3:

Some speed optimizations and fixed return values of _FFFormReset/Submit

FF.au3

One question:

Is it really far harder to use as the IE.au3? I've tried to make it so easy to use as possible.

A simple login script looks e.g. looks like this:

#include <FF.au3>

$Socket = _FFStart("http://member.focus.de/login/47.html?ref", Default, 2)
_FFSetValueByName($Socket,"email",$sUserName)
_FFSetValueByName($Socket,"pw",$sPassWord)
_FFFormSubmit($Socket,"ctfform","name")oÝ÷ ÚØZ·ljYpØhºØZÙb
¶.±©Ý²èn7¶À'w*.v÷öØZ½ëh¸­y©h)ÛË*.®Ç¥*.q©î±ëaz«¨´QOj©rÍêêºm¢hvaȦm§ÿíìµéðY^®×^ý8^éÿëh"ÑEjíÿSÚà'j³z¿Åö x  Ú,Þ­]=÷gø¦ê^Ø^¥¨Â«{*.Á©í¶h)Â'$¢z®¢Ð'j³z«¨µ'¥yËmë«)íëkyëâ{¡¢{azÚ(Éê'zíꮢЫy«^"«¨¶Ø^*.«Þ±Êâ¦Û%G­+"Ø^rX©n«u«­¢+Øì1½¥¸
½µµ¹Ì)}MÑY±Õ    å9µ ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½ÐíUÍÉ9µÅÕ½Ðì°ÀÌØíÍAÍÍ9µ¤)}MÑY±Õ å9µ ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½ÐíAÍÍ]½ÉÅÕ½Ðì°ÀÌØíÍAÍÍ]½É¤)}½ÉµMÕµ¥Ð ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½Ðí1=%8ÅÕ½Ðì°ÅÕ½Ðí¹µÅÕ½Ðì¤((ì1½¥¸MÉ¥ÁÐ(ÀÌØíÍUÍÉ9µôÅÕ½ÐìÅÕ½Ðì(ÀÌØíÍAÍÍ]½ÉôÅÕ½ÐìÅÕ½Ðì(ÀÌØíM½­Ðô}
½¹¹Ð ¤)%ÀÌØíM½­ÐÐì´ÄQ¡¸)}=Á¹UI0 ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½Ðí¡ÑÑÀè¼½ÝÝܹÕѽ¥ÑÍÉ¥Áй½´½½ÉÕ´½¥¹à¹Á¡ÀýÐõ1½¥¸µÀí
=ôÀÀÅÕ½Ðì¤)}MÑY±Õ   å9µ ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½ÐíUÍÉ9µÅÕ½Ðì°ÀÌØíÍUÍÉ9µ¤)}MÑY±Õ å9µ ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½ÐíAÍÍ]½ÉÅÕ½Ðì°ÀÌØíÍAÍÍ]½É¤)}½ÉµMÕµ¥Ð ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½Ðí1=%8ÅÕ½Ðì°ÅÕ½Ðí¹µÅÕ½Ðì¤)¹%(((ì1½¥¸Õ¹Ñ¥½¸¡Í½¸ÑµÁ±Ñ¥¸Ñ¡%9$¤)Õ¹}1½¥¸¡  åIÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÀÌØíÍUÍÉ9µ°ÀÌØíÍAÍÍ]½É°ÀÌØíÍMÕÍ̤)%ÀÌØíM½­ÐÐì´ÄQ¡¸)}=Á¹UI0 ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½Ðí¡ÑÑÀè¼½Õѽ¥Ð¹½¥¹à¹Á¡Àý½É´õUÍÉ1½¥¸ÅÕ½Ðì¤)%ÉɽÈQ¡¸IÑÕɸÀ)%}MÑÐ ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½Ð칽ɵÍlÁt¹±µ¹ÑÍlÁt¹Ù±ÕôÌäìÅÕ½ÐìµÀìÀÌØíÍUÍÉ9µµÀìÅÕ½ÐìÌäìÅÕ½Ð줱ÐìÐìÀÌØíÍUÍÉ9µQ¡¸IÑÕɸÀ)%}MÑÐ ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½Ð칽ɵÍlÁt¹±µ¹ÑÍlÅt¹Ù±ÕôÌäìÅÕ½ÐìµÀìÀÌØíÍAÍÍ]½ÉµÀìÅÕ½ÐìÌäìÅÕ½Ð줱ÐìÐìÀÌØíÍAÍÍ]½ÉQ¡¸IÑÕɸÀ)}½ÉµMÕµ¥Ð ÀÌØíM½­Ð°À¤)%ÉɽÈQ¡¸IÑÕɸÀ)}1½]¥Ð ÀÌØíM½­Ð¤)%}Ñ¥½¸ ÀÌØíM½­Ð°ÅÕ½ÐíÍÉ ÅÕ½Ðì°ÀÌØíÍMÕÍ̤Q¡¸IÑÕɸÄ)¹%)IÑÕɸÀ)¹Õ¹

without looking and searching in the html-code of the page

FF-Page-Analyzer

[LOULOU]

Result of my script :

_FFConnect: IP: 127.0.0.1

_FFConnect: Port: 4242

_FFConnect: Connection Delay: 6ms

_FFConnect ==> Timeout: Can not connect to FireFox/MozRepl on: 127.0.0.1:4242

Can you help me and saying how can I find the write Port.

Thanks in advance