Controlling elinks from Pipe, CLI or Script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi guys,

I�m looking for an automatic way to save the source code of an website to a file. My questions is, it is possible to control elinks from a script, pipe or cli? I need to open a website, login on this site by a webform, submit the form, open an new url and save the source code of a data-sheet on this site. Can anybody help me?

Thanks for your answer.

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Can you share what you've already done? And have you looked at man curl (linux) or man wget (linux)?
-DL

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Yes, i have tested curl and wget, but i don't get the source-code of the page because there are some problems with javascript. I've got the following source code:

 <html>
 <head>
 <script language='javascript'>function autoNavigate() {window.location="data.html";}</script>
 </head>
 <body onload='autoNavigate()'></body>
 </html>

This is the same url as i loaded before. The javascript code reload the same page. But if i load the url with curl or wget a second time, i get a 302 Error.

The same problems by using "lynx" and "w3m". Only "links" and "elinks" shows the content of the page correctly. Thats why i'm looking for a possibility to control the text-browser from a script.

Thanks

---------- Post updated 12-02-14 at 02:37 PM ---------- Previous update was 12-01-14 at 04:59 PM ----------

Here the solutions:

controlling browser from pipe:
https:// vimeo.com/19616296

Controlling browser from script with expect:
http:// expect.sourceforge.net/
you can use autoexpect to record all inputs.