I tested out Lynx and tested out the cmd_script thing where you can have it perform things automatically like download the html coding and stuff. Pretty impressive.

I want to use something similar to download html coding from one URL for monitoring purposes, there's just one snag though - the URL can only be accessed with a browser that's Javascript enabled -

At first I seeked high and low for a command-line browser with Javascript capability, but I've now pretty much given up on the idea.


What I'm interested in is if it's possible to do a cmd_script thing with Firefox or maybe Konquerer. That way I can have it run via crontab say every 5 min., download the coding I need to a file, then do a seperate script to check the contents of the file.


Does anybody know if something like this will be possible with FF or Konquerer?


Thanks buddies.

Let me guess, you need just download and read the javascript page and understand how to find where it redirects. Seen lots of such stuff. wget and your brain (for one-time job) is sufficient.

Actually no.

I'm using Sitescope to check a few Servers and Websites for availability. Part of the process is to log onto a URL and check the amount of sessions on a server (the Javascript page). This is a daily thing and I'd really like to automate the whole process, hence the need for an automated virtual user. I can't use wget since I first have to log into the relevant URL. From there, everything in the URL itself is encoded and can't be re-used (I think).

See my idea is to have a browser do what I would've done, only automatically. That way I can just save the relevant info into a text file, deploy a script to check the relevant values in the textfile, and have Sitescope generate an Alert whenever the values are below or above a certain threshold.

Anyone have an idea yet if something like this is possible?