Tips or Info on login search script

[Sparkle]

I hope some here can help me.

I work with companies that require me to login continuously throughout the day to look for job orders. The work is competitive with other consultants. What I want is to have a program that could login for me and if there is a job order accept it automatically without me physically sitting at my computer all day screening for new orders.

I need to write a simple script to perform several actions. First to load IE, and then to got to the website, login with my user name and password, and accept the orders. I also want it to have a timer the has the program run every 3 or 10 minutes.

I have a mod that logs on to IE and goes to the website but after that I am lost. Can anbody give me pointers on what I need to get this acomplished?

Thanks.

[DJMaze]

Write your own program and use the same functions that IE uses for websites.
This is easy since IE is not a browser, it just uses Windows's core functions (whole Win OS since 98 is web based)

[Sparkle]

I am sorry, I should have said...I basically know very little about code programing. I searched for days on getting the module to launch IE.

[Belisarius]

What you're looking for is actually something called "screen scrapping". You might be able to get by with a Windows port of a Unix tool called "cURL", but I don't know the details of the website you're logging onto.

At a glance, I'd say you'd either need to learn to program - Perl or (probably more appropriately) PHP would be a good place to start. Or hire a programmer to do it for you. Screen-scraping have never struck me as something that can really be modularized, so there probably aren't tools that a non-programmer can use so accomplish it. Because of the rather custom nature of websites, they'll all be different, and therefore you'd need to create a custom script to process them.

[sde]

You could probably do what you need with a macro program. Check out Quick macros: Quick Macros - universal macro program. Automation, keyboard, mouse, toolbars, programming ...

You can record button and mouse clicks and set up delays and keep it looping.