How to use SelniunHQ to fill out forms with php?

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How to use SelniunHQ to fill out forms with php?

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I'm on a sleepless day ... trying to solve a problem that seemed simple ... I have data in a database and I need to fire that data to another site by filling in the fields coming from the database and submitting them. . I was trying to do curl, but a colleague told me the correct thing is to do with seleniunHQ, does anyone know how to use seleniun to automate the registration of a form like it was a robbery? This job is to serve an agency, where I have to collect data from one landing page and popular another ...

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asked by anonymous 20.05.2017 / 20:01

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Your question is too broad, however, I'll try to help you.

You can use a combination of: Python + Selenium to browse and popular forms. If you need to collect information from open pages, you can also use the BeautifulSoup library to extract the infos.

To start the browser:

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

To open a URL:

driver.get("www.url.com")

To find and fill a field with the value "MeuNome" :

text = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@id="primeiro_nome"]')
text.send_keys('MeuNome')

To press the continue button:

button = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@id="btn_continuar"]')
button.click()

To collect the data of a page, you can create a soup with the contents of the page opened in selenium webdriver:

html_source = driver.page_source
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_source, 'lxml')

After creating a database with the information to fill out, you can create a repeat structure to fill out the pages for each iteration:

for reg in registros:
    nome = reg[0]
    sobrenome = reg[1]
    aniversario = reg[2]
    nickname = reg[3]

    abre_pagina()

    preenche_dados()

    finaliza_cadastro()