Submit web form from command line?

dbc001 · 10-14-2006, 10:21 PM

Hello,
I just discovered that you can send text messages via a web interface and I would like to write a script that will send me a text message on my cell phone every once in a while. Is there a command line program that can submit forms? seems like lynx or wget should be able to do this but I haven't had any luck googling for terms like "command line submit web form" - those are all pretty common terms...

thanks in advance!
dbc

Blindsight · 10-15-2006, 02:34 AM

Alternatively, you could write a program (you choose the language) to telnet to the webserver and submit the syntax to send a text message. Check out:

http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/?pa...rough%20telnet

danielftl · 10-15-2006, 03:59 AM

Curl will do this. Visit the curl site to obtain curl.

Install curl on your server.
At the command line type:

curl -o html1.html -L "URL of web form"

Then obtain formfind.pl and do this:

perl formfind.pl < html1.html

which will display the fields of the form and what type of data is required.

Then build your curl command based on the data that you need to feed to the web form. This will be most complicated part of this and depends on a number of factors. Read the curl faqs and tutorial.

Good luck.