[Tutor] retrieve data from an online database without knowing the url

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Thu Nov 15 13:20:21 CET 2007


pileux systeme wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering whether it was possible to write a program which could 
> directly write some word in a box and click 'search' on a typical online 
> database without using the url. (e.g. is there a way to write a program 
> which would write some keyword, say 'tomato' on google and click 'google 
> search' automatically and copy the page without having to know the url 
> 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=tomato&spell=1')

Maybe ClientForm is what you want:
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/

Kent


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