How to download using IE without human interaction?

[ctalk]

Dear All,

I need to do a routine work every day: download the newest rosters of several classes from a web site every night to my local machine for data editing. I want to write a script or use some tools to automate this process. Basically, what I want is that, every night at 10:00pm, my PC will

1.automaticlly start Internet Explorer.
2.type in the right URL, and go to the intended website.
3.Log in using a given username/password combination.
4. Choose an item from a drop down list.
5. click "export".
6. Logo out.
7. exit Internet Explorer.

Could some one give me a hint how to do it?

Thank you for your attention.

BinZ

 

[rwong]

Hi Ctalk:

Are you a visual c++ programmer?

I can give you a hint:

Create a program in visual c++ that uses MFC's CHtmlView class, then you can construct a small function like this:

In the OnInitialUpdate function

void CCapturaView::OnInitialUpdate()
{
CHtmlView::OnInitialUpdate();

// TODO: This code navigates to a popular spot on the web.
// change the code to go where you'd like.
Navigate2(_T("

http://www.yahoo.com"),NULL,NULL);

}

now that you have the web page in memory, you can do anything you want,

Regards

Ricardo

 

[Berras]

You can also use this function:

HINSTANCE result = ShellExecute(NULL, _T("open&quot, _T("

http://your.address.com"),

NULL,NULL, SW_SHOW);

to open IE (or your default browser). But the rest I am afraid I cannot help you with.