Automating some tasks on HTML page...

[FrancescoDiMuro]

Good evening everyone

Before all, I want to say that I'm doing this script to see how _IE* functions work, and see if my studs can hack a quiz I'm working on.

I want to clarify that I'm not automating any game, bypassing any CAPTCHAs, or anything that could damage anyone.

I was trying to autofill a form, based on which question is displayed.

The question is always stored in here:

<header>
    <h1><span class="questionid">1. </span>Here goes the question</h1>
</header>

And answers are stored in here:

<ul class="answers">
    <li><label><span><input id="answer_0" name="answer[]" type="radio" value="0">Answer 1</span></label></li>
    <li><label><span><input id="answer_1" name="answer[]" type="radio" value="1">Answer 2</span></label></li>
    <li><label><span><input id="answer_2" name="answer[]" type="radio" value="2">Anwser 3</span></label></li>
    <li><label><span><input id="answer_3" name="answer[]" type="radio" value="3">Answer 4</span></label></li>
</ul></fieldset></form></div>

And, there are 15 questions like this.

How can automatically fill my form?

Thanks in advance

Francesco

[junkew]

try the examples of IE.UDF or search the forum.

If you do not take mitigations in your server part on speed of answers I am sure people can hack your frontend thru the browser (provide a list of questions/answers and fill the forms quickly is a piece of cake).

If you make your site internet reachable we can try on your site

[FrancescoDiMuro]

Good morning @junkew

Thanks for your reply.

I was looking at _IE* functions, but, I was unable to access to h1 text.

I tried with this, but I didn't manage to access to the innertext of h1:

Local $objIE_h1 = _IETagNameGetCollection($objIE, "h1")
If @error Then
    ConsoleWrite("Errore durante la lettura degli h1 nella pagina. - Errore: " & @error & @CRLF)
Else
    Local $strInnerText = _IEPropertyGet($objIE_h1, "innertext") ; ===========> It returns error 4.
    If @error Then
        ConsoleWrite("Errore durante la lettura della proprietà di h1. - Errore: " & @error)
    Else
        MsgBox($MB_ICONINFORMATION, "", $strInnerText)
    EndIf
EndIf

What am I doing wrong?

Edited September 19, 2017 by FrancescoDiMuro

[junkew]

You get a collection back get property will only work on 1 element at a time. so $objIE_h1[0] or $objIE_h1[1]

case sensitive maybe? innerText?

alternatives:       textContent or innerHTML

 

see this example 

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_IETagNameAllGetCollection.htm

Edited September 19, 2017 by junkew

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@junkew

I tried with this code below, but errors occurs:

Local $objIE_h1 = _IETagNameGetCollection($objIE, "h1") ; => It should return just one h1, because in the page there is only one h1.
    If @error Then
        ConsoleWrite("Errore durante la lettura degli h1 nella pagina. - Errore: " & @error & @CRLF) ; => No errors here
    Else
;~      For $objElement In $objIE ; => This displays nothing
;~          ConsoleWrite($objElement.textContent & @CRLF)
;~      Next
        Local $strInnerText = _IEPropertyGet($objIE_h1[0], "innerText") ; If I try with array element, this is the error that it returns:
        ; Expected a variable in user function call.:
        ; Local $strInnerText = _IEPropertyGet($objIE_h1[0], "innerText") ; Tried with innertext, innerText and textContent, but it's the same...
        ; Local $strInnerText = _IEPropertyGet(^ ERROR
        
        If @error Then
            ConsoleWrite("Errore durante la lettura della proprietà di h1. - Errore: " & @error)
        Else
            MsgBox($MB_ICONINFORMATION, "", $strInnerText)
        EndIf
    EndIf

 

Edited September 19, 2017 by FrancescoDiMuro

[junkew]

try a loop around your example.

Check if you get 0,1 or n elements back

Local $oElements = _IETagNameAllGetCollection($objIE,"h1")
For $oElement In $oElements
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Element Info", "Tagname: " & $oElement.tagname & @CRLF & "id: " & $oElement.id & @CRLF & "innerText: " & $oElement.innerText)
Next

 

[FrancescoDiMuro]

I tried with this code right here, and nothing happened:

Local $objIE_h1 = _IETagNameGetCollection($objIE, "h1") ; => It's _IETagNameGetCollection(), and not _IETagNameAllGetCollection() as you prompted in the previous post!
    If @error Then
        ConsoleWrite("Errore durante la lettura degli h1 nella pagina. - Errore: " & @error & @CRLF)
    Else
        MsgBox($MB_ICONINFORMATION, "", @extended) ; => This MsgBox is to see how many h1 have been found ( It displays 1, as it is ).
        For $objElement In $objIE
            ConsoleWrite("Tagname: " & $objElement.tagname & @CRLF & "Id:" & $objElement.id & "Inner text:" & $objElement.innerText & @CRLF)
        Next

Edited September 19, 2017 by FrancescoDiMuro

[junkew]

try the examples first to rule out nothing is wrong with your installation

Most likely there is no h1 (or maybe its case sensitive to be H1)

Whats your definition of "nothing happened" you either had output on console or a msgbox. If not the AutoIt broke on your first line of coding. 

I make the assumption you have the #include <IE.AU3> at top of your script.

 

[FrancescoDiMuro]

5 minutes ago, junkew said:

try the examples first to rule out nothing is wrong with your installation

The example gave me the expected result, so, I think we can exclude that there's nothing wrong with the installation of AutoIt;

5 minutes ago, junkew said:

Most likely there is no h1 (or maybe its case sensitive to be H1)

There is only one h1 in the HTML, and it's not H1. By the way, the @extended after the _IETagNameCollection() confirms what I'm saying.

5 minutes ago, junkew said:

Whats your definition of "nothing happened" you either had output on console or a msgbox. If not the AutoIt broke on your first line of coding. 

I tried with both ConsoleWrite() and MsgBox(), and in both cases I have had no output.

5 minutes ago, junkew said:

I make the assumption you have the #include <IE.AU3> at top of your script.

Absolutely yeah, or I should have had a bunch of errors in the script

Edited September 19, 2017 by FrancescoDiMuro

[junkew]

i am sure _h1 is what you miss

For $objElement In $objIE_h1

as you talk about @extend confirms what you are saying you have output in your msgbox which is different then saying no output

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@junkew

Distraction errors have been always my Achille's heel!

Thank you so much!

Now I'll process this innerText with a Select...Case...EndSelect, and click on the correct answer...

Let's see

By the way, I'll post here if I'll need any information about _IE* functions

Thanks again for your support!

Have a wonderful day

Francesco

[FrancescoDiMuro]

Good morning everyone

@junkew

I managed to have textes of questions, but now, I have to click on the correct answer in order to continue with the quiz form.

This is what I tried:

For $i = 0 To 3 ; There are 3 answers, so I scan them in this For...Next loop
    $objAnswer = _IEGetObjById($objIE, "answer_" & $i) ; According to the id of the form, I get the object
    If @error Then
        ConsoleWrite("Errore durante la lettura della risposta #" & $i & " - Errore: " & @error & @CRLF)
    Else
        $strAnswer = $objAnswer.value ; =================> Here, I tried with innerText, textContent, innerHTML, but I always have a blank string
                                      ;                    It seems to be good with textContent, because the script was doing the clicks, but now
                                      ;                    seems broken...
        ConsoleWrite("Risposta: " & $strAnswer & @CRLF)
        If StringInStr($strAnswer, "ANSWER") Then ; Here it is the answer
            _IEAction($objAnswer, "focus")
            If @error Then
                ConsoleWrite("Errore durante il click sull'elemento. - Errore: " & @error)
                $blnGo = False ; I use this in a nested While, in order to have a flag which let continue ( if True ) the loop...
            Else
                Send("{ENTER}", $SEND_DEFAULT)
                $blnGo = True
                ExitLoop
            EndIf
        EndIf
    EndIf
Next

EDIT:

This is the HTML code, and I have to extract the text "ANSWER":

<li><label><span><input id="answer_0" name="answer[]" type="radio" value="0">ANSWER</span></label></li>

What can I do?

Thanks

Edited September 20, 2017 by FrancescoDiMuro

[junkew]

similar to what you did before only different element

$MyVar=_IEPropertyGet($objAnswer, "innerText")
consolewrite($myVar)

 

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@junkew

No text is retrieved between <input> TEXT </input>...

Maybe I should look for the <span> instead of <input> ?

I really don't know!

Edited September 20, 2017 by FrancescoDiMuro

[junkew]

My advice is to make it first in Excel with VBA

1. new module

2. add thru menu tools, references to

a. Microsoft Internet Controls

b. Microsoft HTML controls

3. new subroutine like this

#If VBA7 Then
    Declare PtrSafe Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As LongPtr)
#Else
    Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
#End If

Sub testie()
    Dim oIE As New InternetExplorer                'A new IE object
    Dim oDocument As HTMLDocument                  'The main document that is opened/navigated to
    Dim oElements As IHTMLElementCollection        'Collection of elements
    Dim oElement As IHTMLElement                   'A specific element that can be queried
    Dim iTry As Long
    
    oIE.Visible = True  'Make me visible
    
    oIE.Navigate2 "www.google.nl"   'Navigate to my website
    'Wait till page is loaded or 50 * 200 is 10 seconds max
    Do While (oIE.Busy Or oIE.readyState <> 4) And (iTry < 50)
        iTry = iTry + 1
        DoEvents
        Sleep 200
    Loop

    If (oIE.Busy Or oIE.readyState <> 4) Then
        MsgBox "something wrong with loading page"
    End If
    
    Set oDocument = oIE.document
    Set oElements = oDocument.getElementsByTagName("input")
    
    Debug.Print "Found elements length:" & oElements.Length
    For Each oElement In oElements
        Debug.Print oElement.Name & oElement.className & oElement.innerHTML & oElement.Type & oElement.Title & oElement.outerHTML
    Next
    
End Sub

4. press F5 run

5. And when you debug/breakpoint in the forloop you can reveal all properties in the locals\quickwatch window

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@junkew

I managed to do what I was trying to do with this:

$objSpans = _IETagNameGetCollection($objIE, "span")
                    For $objElement In $objSpans
                        If $i >= 4 Then
                            $strAnswer = $objElement.innerText ; Testo della risposta
                            If StringInStr($strAnswer, "ANSWER") Then
                                $j = $i - 4
                                ConsoleWrite($j & ") Risposta: " & $strAnswer & @CRLF)
                                $objInput = _IEGetObjById($objIE, "answer_" & $j)
                                If @error Then
                                    ConsoleWrite("Errore durante la lettura della risposta #" & $i & " - Errore: " & @error & @CRLF)
                                Else
                                    _IEAction($objInput, "click")
                                    If @error Then
                                        ConsoleWrite("Errore durante il click sull'elemento. - Errore: " & @error)
                                        $blnGo = False
                                    Else
                                        Send("{ENTER}", $SEND_DEFAULT)
                                        $blnGo = True
                                        ExitLoop
                                    EndIf
                                EndIf
                            EndIf
                            $i+=1
                        Else
                            $i+=1
                        EndIf
                    Next
                    $i = 0
                    $j = 0

but now, I have to timing the questions' scan ( because the scan is done as soon the answer is let, so... ).

How could I add a sort of "when the answer is let, then wait for a different question, and proceed with all the code".

Or something similiar...

Thanks in advance

Francesco

Edited September 20, 2017 by FrancescoDiMuro

[junkew]

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_IELoadWait.htm

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/Sleep.htm

While ($IE.Busy and $IE.StatusText <> "Done")
      Sleep(100)
   WEnd

or $IE.Readystate

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@junkew

I managed with an infinite loop... 

A big thanks for all your help

Have a good day

Francesco