powerschool webscraper?

[Tom Buskey]

I'd look at Selenium <http://www.seleniumhq.org/>.  I heard about it from
our QA guys for automation.



On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:35 PM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:

> Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> writes:
> > Not that I know of an existing tool (BeautifulSoup probably doesn't deal
> > with the JavaScript), but it seems like you want to capture the eventual
> > DOM.  You need something that you can trigger when the page has
> > settled.
>
> Nope. I thought this too, but it's not true. I have absolutely no
> compunction about actually parsing the HTML--I would just grep for
> whatever keyword worked and jam a POST in the web form for my
> username/password, BeautifulSoup be damned.
>
> However, it's something else. I can't think of the term now, but it
> isn't a matter finding something in the page I can use. I have to
> actually simulate a web browser to run the Javascript so I communicate
> with the server and get the right security tokens and whatever.
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