A program that automatically browsers a website.

[warren_1979]

Hi.

I need to program that automatically browsers a website and clicks on links within the website. Does anything like this exist?

I've stumbled across something called a scraper but I don't think this is exactly what I am looking for. Do scraper download content from the site?

Cheers.

 

[MrRockliffe]

Scrapers do indeed collect info from a site. Say you're logging data from a website - you'd use a scraper.

 

[AHarvey]

Why are you looking at doing this?

If you want to pull data from it then a scraper will do.

If you're planning on doing this as part of a website testing automation in order to mimick a user you'll need automated testing software/framework.

 

[integrala]

Automated test tools can test the properties of links and the results of clicking on them. They will not automatically locate links though you would need to record a script that can then be replayed against a screen