Advice needed

AHarvey

AHarvey

AHarvey

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Hi all,

We've a job at work that involves visiting a website 100 times plus, using different free proxies, entering data on to a website (selecting from 3 drop downs, entering name, email twice and clicking 2 option boxes),

Currently this is done manually and seems completely ridiculous to me that it isn't automated.

All the names, emails and proxies are in a spreadsheet so each proxy will use the same name every time its entered.

Is there anyway to speed this up and how would you do it?
 
Perl and LWP::UserAgent, maybe?

Are these proxy sites that you go to in the browser and then submit the URL of the site you want to visit or do you just set them as a proxy in the browser options?
 
You could use LWP::UserAgent to write a script to do this, then, but you'd need to install Perl on the system(s) being used. You could also use a variety of other languages, including Python, but I'm less familiar with the libraries they'd use for the job. I'm not sure there are any other tools that you could use for it, but I imagine someone has come up against a similar problem before.

If you want, I could probably whip up an example when I get home.
 
Well I keep meaning to get past the basics on Python so I might try and have a bash at it myself :D Give me something to do at work :p
 
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