Browser Automation
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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qvisual · 2012-10-10 16:23

Hello everyone. Is there a browser automation library for Lazarus? I
have been using Ruby and Watir to create some automation scripts. This
combination has worked well for me so far, but I would like to nest
some of this functionality into a light, portable gui app. I've
created a small gui tool with Ruby Tk, but distributing this app to my
co-workers would require them to have Ruby, the Watir gem, and the Tk
gem installed. Also they would have to run the program from the
command line. I'm looking for a simpler solution. I know a little bit
about Delphi and Lazarus, and was thinking this could be a great
alternative and fun project.   Any help regarding this issue would be
greatly appreciated. Browser type is immaterial to me. Thanks.

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Phil · 2012-10-10 16:34

Quote from: qvisual on October 10, 2012, 06:23:46 pmHello everyone. Is
there a browser automation library for Lazarus?

Not sure what you mean by that. Do you mean something like this:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/GeckoPort_version2

Thanks.

-Phil

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qvisual · 2012-10-11 15:48

Thank you for the response, but that's not quite the solution I was
looking for. I'm looking for an automation library or API similar to
Selenium (browser automation) or AutoIT (Windows system automation).
Hopefully this clears things up. Again any information or guidance
regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Phil · 2012-10-11 19:29

Quote from: qvisual on October 11, 2012, 05:48:27 pmThank you for the
response, but that's not quite the solution I was looking for. I'm
looking for an automation library or API similar to Selenium (browser
automation) or AutoIT (Windows system automation). Hopefully this
clears things up. Again any information or guidance regarding this
issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks 

Since Selenium does not include language bindings for Pascal, you
would need to develop those yourself. You can post on this site when
you've completed them in order to make them available to others:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Components_and_Code_examples

Thanks.

-Phil

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BeniBela · 2012-10-11 20:59

Not within a browser, but for webpage automation I made my internet
tools. (with a command line example), although the command line seems
to be the opposite you need).

Supports XPath and CSS, but not JavaScript.

And I just decided to rewrite its interface, so it's a really bad time
to look at it.

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marcov · 2012-10-12 07:37

On Windows, in theory: use importtl on c:\windows\system32\mshtml.tlb

This will generate an header file for Internet Explorer automation
over COM.

The header file will be large though, and it probably will require
some digging in MSDN to be able to use it.