Solutions: Web Task Automation

Web tasks such as entering data into a form or testing a web server's output usually require manual data entry or web navigation. Data that needs to be entered into a web site form might need to come from a database or other application that a user may not have direct access to. These tasks are tedious and error-prone.

Web sites can be navigated and form data entered automatically with screen-scraper. This frees up human resources and provides an alternative to manual data entry. Given that screen-scraper can have many sources of data input, including databases, files and even other web based applications, you can control exactly what gets submitted and when.

Examples of using screen-scraper for web task automation include:

• Entering data into a business partner's web site
• Automation of supplies ordering
• Web server output testing via web page captures and HTML parsing