Which function to reach a specific part of a website ?

[JulienL]

Hi everyone,

My small company manages a blog (wordpress format). The problem is that the "comment zone" of many articles is full of queries. So i'm trying to create a bot that would allow us to comment different articles of our blog - articles identified as full of queries - to redirect these "queries" to our customer service. 

For that, I need my bot to understand where is the "leave a comment" zone on each article and the e-mail zone also (which is marked as "hidden" in our html code).

Do you know which function should I use for that ? I guess it might be a function that would read the html code of a wordpress  (?) and then point the mouse on the required zone but I don't know which one :/

Thanks a lot for your help

[TheFixer]

Unfortunately @JulienL,

If you want something like that you will need to know a lot about how AutoIt works. 

But even then I am not actually sure if something like that is even possible in AutoIt. It is probably better looking towards one of the more "advanced" languages. Such as C++ I believe C++ might be able to do what you are looking for using reading and writing to a processes memory. But I don't really know anything about C++.

Edited April 28, 2016 by TheFixer

[JulienL]

Thank you for your answer.  

Indeed i'm not an expert of Autoit as you've just guessed.

I'm asking this question so I could specifically "target" more my research about Autoit and similar processses.

[JLogan3o13]

6 minutes ago, TheFixer said:

I am not actually sure if something like that is even possible in AutoIt.

I believe C++ might be able to do what you are looking for using reading and writing to a processes memory. But I don't really know anything about C++.

@TheFixer typically if you don't know anything about a particular question, or don't know how to assist, it's better to wait and let others reply rather than clogging the thread with what amounts to "I have no idea"

@JulienL is this blog something externally facing that you could include a link to, so we could see the page layout?

Edited April 28, 2016 by JLogan3o13

[TheFixer]

1 minute ago, JLogan3o13 said:

@TheFixer typically if you don't know anything about a particular question, or don't know how to assist, it's better to wait and let other reply rather than replying with what amounts to a big "I have no idea"

Sorry, I'll try to keep that in mind for next time.

[JulienL]

2 minutes ago, JLogan3o13 said:

@TheFixer typically if you don't know anything about a particular question, or don't know how to assist, it's better to wait and let others reply rather than clogging the thread with what amounts to "I have no idea"

@JulienL is this blog something externally facing that you could include a link to, so we could see the page layout?

It's a basic wordpress, so I'm pretty sure the page layout is standard (at least, the comment form) like this one https://bemusedbackpacker.com/2013/08/26/how-to-stay-fit-and-healthy-on-your-gap-year/ (just an example )

[JulienL]

Does it answer your question @JLogan3o13 ?

[JulienL]

FYI, after lots of research i've found how to "reach" the specific part. Basically, we have to use the same structure as for "auto log in" bots  

The code looks like this :

$oIE = _IECreate("url-of-the-blog")
$o_comment = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "comment")
_IEFormElementSetValue($o_comment, "")

$o_email = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "email")
_IEFormElementSetValue($o_email, "")

$o_name = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "author")
_IEFormElementSetValue($o_name, "")

$o_submit = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "submit")
_IEAction($o_submit, "click")
 

Hope it would help someone else  

[mLipok]

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