I would like to know if there is javascript or jquery code I can use to check if a link would redirect the current page, instead of a it opening a new webpage.
I am using ruby on rails and on my site there are links that redirect and links that open a new webpage. I need js that executes when a user clicks on any of the links, if the link redirects, it should prompt a confirmation message then executes the link to redirect.
The only ways I'm aware that a link can open a new page are:
Downloading an attachment (not inline)
Running 'window.open' directly or through an event callback
Unfortunately, it can be extremely difficult to reliably determine through javascript inspection if these are going to happen. This is because you'll need to perform reflection on the event chain to check the javascript code, and you'll need to call the server (via ajax call) to check for a data attachment.
The simplest way to do this is to manually examine your own site and see where these are happening. Then modify the 'click' event to confirm before proceeding.
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I am using Django v1.10 for an application where in need to send an API call just before browser close through crude javascript (don't want to use any library for sake) preferably. I've read about window.unload and window.onbeforeunload. The first one didn't seem to work at all. The second can work but it also gets executed when there is reload or redirection to another page (it works as it should but that is what I don't want). I've tried using SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE of Django which works only when a user has totally exit out of the browser (no browser process running). I've also seen answers on the web where people have suggested to open another window/tab of the browser through JS as the tab closes.
So in precise words, I want to make an API call just before browser tab close (not in any other situation).
Please help!
I'm looking for a method to automate an add-to-cart process using Python WITHOUT needing to have a browser window open.
I've tried using modules such as mechanize but it does not have the functionality of directly "clicking" a web element
Currently I've been able to automate this process using Selenium but the process of having to open the browser and load web elements, photos, etc adds up to a lengthy process where time is of the essence.
An example page that I would like to automate is here :
http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/pd/kd-vi-elite-basketball-shoe/pid-972328/pgid-972324?cp=usns_twit_041214_basketball_kdelitehome
Any direction is greatly appreciated.
It seems that in the web page you listed, the "Add to Cart" button is actually a form submit button. What you can do is simulate the submission of the form by doing a POST request, with all the necessary form parameters, which you can get from all the <input> elements on the page.
A possible python implementation may be:
Download the page with urllib2. You will probably have to enable cookies.
Parse the page using BeautifulSoup or similar, and find all the <input> tags and their values.
Construct a new POST request with all these params (while maintaining cookies).
You can use your Browser's Network sniffing capabilities to see an actual request being sent, and try to mimic it using the above tools.
Hope it helps.
I have the next task - I have a page where we have some interaction logic:
After a user clicks a button, my script redirects the user to another site where it must be populate 2 textfields then click button, after redirect to new page it must click on another button.
My project is based on ASP.NET MVC4.
My questions are:
May I do all of this?
If yes, how can I redirect to another page and run my script
P.S.: Second web site isn't my site and everything I know is id of buttons where I need to click.
Elaborating on my comment
You cannot do this in a normal browser. You could write a bookmarklet or two that would navigate and click but there is no script you can write in a web page that will do what you want for security reasons. A long time ago, it was possible in IE to load a banking site into an iFrame and script and monitor user interaction to steal credentials. This has been blocked.
If you save an HTML page with the extension HTA, it can be loaded from harddisk in windows and will have relaxed security so you could load the other site into an iFrame and script the interaction. This is likely not what you want.
The last method is to use for example CURL to get the foreign page, insert stuff and submit the form to the foreign site and return the result. This is not recommended either.
So the question to you is: Why do you need this and are there other ways to do what you want
1) location.href = "http://another.page.com"
2) impossible for security purposes
My requirement is to write one script when I run the script it opens the page and fill the fields and automatically take me to next page.
For e.g. Script for www.irctc.co.in. When we login to irctc it ask the user name and password and when click on submit it redirect to next page.
I want to write a script in such a way that I just click on the script it internally does all these things and I could see the next page.
I am unable form where I should start.
I think you are looking for something like Greasemonkey: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to web page content after or before the page is loaded in the browser.
If you use a different browser, then you can refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey#Equivalents_for_other_browsers
Check Watir - Web Application Testing in Ruby. Although it is used for automation, it might solve the purpose here. With Watir, you write scripts in ruby and execute it and then see the magic. More information can be found here
I'm writing an app which should load a website. After the website is loaded, I have to fire up a 2nd command to the web page, which is kind of Javascript scriptlet.
I did this manually in my browser and in generally it seems to work fine. They way I did it manually was I created two shortcuts in my browser:
the URL to this website (e.g. http://www.example.net/123456-e.aspx)
the shortcut to a Scriptlet which calls a function on this website (e.g. javascript:__doPostBack('Video_Info1$Rating_control1$lnk_star5','')).
I first click the URL shortcut and after its loaded, I fire up the 2nd shortcut.
But how can I do this in a C# application?
But, what I'm trying to do is quite the opposite I think.
I'd like to SEND a _postBack to an existing site.
I'm not writing my own site which contains a postBack control!
Let me explain a little in detail...
the site I'm loading in my app is an existing ASPX site in the web.
In this site, you'll find several _doPostback entries and in a browser, the postBack event (when I hit it manually within a bookmark/shortcut) will be send back and has its desired result (in this case, its assigning "5 stars" to tell everybody, that something is supergood ;-).
So, what I'd like to do is to write my C# App which will send this _postBack command every time I hit the OK button or some other events.
Just as it is with my link above
"javascript:__doPostBack('Video_Info1$Rating_control1$lnk_star5','')"
This is the bookmark I have on my browsers bookmark panel - a shortcut!
.... Just to be honest, its a kind of cheat, which will do an automatic voting on an external site...
My prob is now,... how can I send this _postBack straight to the site, to increase my stars?
I am not sure what exactly you are trying to achieve, The code which you are seeing (_doPastBack(..)) is actually going to invoke a server method (code in your codebehind of that page).
You can create a webpage and have an iframe and load your first page in that.The user will be able to click on any of the button and invoke the corresponding server code if there is one attached.
<html>
<body>
<iframe src="http://www.example.net/123456-e.aspx"></iframe>
</body>