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Javascript to input searches on multiple websites and take a screenshot

I am trying to automate the querying of names on 2 different websites. For each website I have to enter in the same name and take a screenshot of the results.I don't know how to approach this project. Is it possible to automate this with a javascript? Thank you for any input.
Website links are below:
[1] http://exclusions.oig.hhs.gov/search.aspx
[2] http://www.health.ny.gov/professionals/doctors/conduct/license_lookup.htm

You should be able to accomplish this with PhantomJS relatively easily. Check out the examples page - you'll probably want to use code evaluation to fill out and submit your forms, after which you can render the page to an image file.

You actually do this is one step: send a POST requests to the information you need. For the first example, you would send these POST data:
__VIEWSTATE=dDwtNzQ5MzEyMDI3Ozs%2BHWC8LXZfQQTCTJWtmudNLStjn%2Fk%3D&txtLastName1=test&txtFirstName1=&txtBusinessName1=&txtLastName2=&txtFirstName2=&txtBusinessName2=&txtLastName3=&txtFirstName3=&txtBusinessName3=&txtLastName4=&txtFirstName4=&txtBusinessName4=&txtLastName5=&txtFirstName5=&txtBusinessName5=&cmdSubmit=Search
So you can use PhantomJS, as suggested, with a POST request and take a screenshot. Or you can use a web service to create the screenshots. Unfortunately, very few allow POST requests with custom POST data. Browshot (see API) lets you send POST data and use a custom Referer. So your screenshot requests would include (after you encode the POST data):
url=http://exclusions.oig.hhs.gov/search.aspx&referer=http://exclusions.oig.hhs.gov/search.aspx&post_data=__VIEWSTATE%3DdDwtNzQ5MzEyMDI3Ozs%252BHWC8LXZfQQTCTJWtmudNLStjn%252Fk%253D%26txtLastName1%3Dtest%26txtFirstName1%3D%26txtBusinessName1%3D%26txtLastName2%3D%26txtFirstName2%3D%26txtBusinessName2%3D%26txtLastName3%3D%26txtFirstName3%3D%26txtBusinessName3%3D%26txtLastName4%3D%26txtFirstName4%3D%26txtBusinessName4%3D%26txtLastName5%3D%26txtFirstName5%3D%26txtBusinessName5%3D%26cmdSubmit%3DSearch
I have tested it, and do get a screenshot of the results, like if I filled out the form and submitted it.

Use hidden iframe to submit data

I need to submit some information to my servlet. Once I submit this information, I'll receive a PDF from the servlet based on the data. I know I can construct the URL and pass parameters to it using HTTP GET. Suppose my form data is too large.So is it possible to do this using a hidden iFrame? I'll submit the parameters using the hidden iFrame and in my servlet, I write the PDF to the response stream. Will this work? If it works can someone please suggest me how to do this?

You'll need to set the target to the iframe you want to submit it to.
<form action='...' name='theform' target='theiframe'>
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.
.
<iframe name='theiframe' src='...'>
</iframe>
</form>
This forum post has some details : http://forums.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=77213

Hm, which way do you want to sent the data using your iframe? I think you're limited to either GET or POST there, too. Means, if your data is too large, the iframe won't help sending your data.
What server backend do you use? You might be able to configure the maximum size of request data (post / get).
Please have a look at this message for more information about this.

In my eyes, using the hidden Iframe method is very old school, almost like before the great days of Ajax methods.
You can use jquery Ajax call and serialize your full form passing all variables. Remember to check your request size in your config, in case it post reaches maximum size.

AJAX Form Submit v/s Standard Form Submit

I am trying to implement GSA(Google Search Appliance) in my app. I want to use the REST(JSON) call that the GSA provides. The point for this question is that, the GSA needs a POST request in order to return the JSON response.
Now when I made a new dummy HTML page with a form and make a POST request with parameters I get a successful response(JSON)
But, when I try using the $.post(...) method to send a POST request to the URL I am not getting the actual response, but some error page.
I just wanted to know is there a difference between a standard submit and an ajax form submit. If yes, is there any workaround for this situation.
Please Help. Thanks in Advance.

If you want to submit the form through ajax but in the conventional way, You should have a look at jquery form plugin . Just make your submit button to type button and on click submit your form thorugh .ajaxSubmit(). I think this will solve your problem.

GSA search protocol is based on HTTP GET. All search parameters need to be passed in via query string. Also, out of box, GSA only returns either HTML or XML results. You could apply an xslt that transforms xml to JSON -- but I'm yet to find one that works really well (i.e., I've found a couple but they don't return valid JSON in all instances).

Post raw form data from web page

I would like to send raw post data using straightforward DHTML, but without using the XMLHttpRequest object. Is this possible to do this, for example, by forcing an HTML form element's post data to an arbitrary string?

Before you post the form, you could dynamically add html input elements (with values) to the form, and then call form.sumbit(). This will still refresh the page though.
The only way that I'm aware of to post data without refreshing the page is using the XMLHttpRequest object. Using jQuery makes this whole operation pretty trivial http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.post/ , so I'm not sure why you don't want to use ajax to accomplish this?

You can easily generate a string that resembles a POST request. There is not much difference between a POST and a GET. Using GET, the parameters are added behind the url. When POSTing, the parameters are added in the same way, but below the headers.
See developers.sun.com for an example.

What's the best way to submit a form to a form script on another site?

I am working on a basic HTML page that requires the user to send details to a script located on a third-party website. What I require is for the user to fill out a form on my web page, and have that information submitted to another third-party form.
I do not wish to return anything to the user, other than whether the submission was successful or not. I also do not want the user to have to go to this third-party site to submit using their form.
It was suggested by the website itself to use an iframe and hold its form on your page, but I was wondering what other, preferably better methods are available to me. It'd be nice if there were some form of jQuery/js code I could use to do such a thing.

It'd be nice if there were some form
of jQuery/js code I could use to do
such a thing.
One way is to use jQuery's $.ajax or $.post methods like this:
$.ajax({
url: url,
success: function(data) {
alert('succeeded');
}
});

Maybe you could try cURL with CURLOPT_POST and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS?

well it depends if you have control over the other website as well. as in you are able to access the code.
If you are you can use JSONP to pass the values and get a response, but to do it you will have to assign a callback that is sent and then formatted at the front of a JSON object for it to work (they do this for security).
The other option is to use a php ob_start() function. (Note: this will only work if the form you are trying to submit these values to allow $_GET to be used to proccess the form)
ob_start();
include('http://wwww.anotherwebsite.com?key1=value1&key2=value2&key3=value3');
$returnString = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
So then from here $returnString is the result, which you can basically search (strpos() to see if true is how I would do it) in php to find key words to see if it was successful or not or what ever you need to check for.
But again, this only works if the form on the remote server uses $_GET and not $_POST (or allows both through globals).
I know this is a php solution, but a warning is that for security purposes, there are serious restrictions on what javascript can do cross server.. the best javascript way to do cross server is JSONP, which jQuery does support so you might want to look into that.. but as I mentioned, for it to work you need to have a callback be able to be sent back with the response, and the response needs to be in a jsonp object format.. (basically you either need to 1. have the other server have a jsonp api for you to use or you have control over the other server's server side files to make the changes needed).

Do you want like that? It's simple form submitting to another website. But, I can't check whether it's successfully submitted or not.
<form action="http://www.another.com">
<input name="myInput" type="text">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>