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When I click a link to download a file, a pop up window comes up to save the file. Is there a way to enter a file name and click the submit button with mechanize? Thanks, Jeff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/attachments/20070712/558f7018/attachment.html

...he first time i''m having to use forms (scraping previously). So, after i fill out the form, when I hit submit, it sends me information in the form of a text file to download. For the life of me, I can''t see how to get access to it. When clicking on a link, you can put a save_as on it and save the data as a file. How do I save off data that''s sent to me via the submit of a form? Thanks for any advice, Will

Hi, I''m working to scrape and save some ebooks. Mechanize has been wonderful so far. The link I''m having trouble with is this one. http://www.webscription.net/SendZip.aspx?SKU=0671578499&ProductID=379&format=H When I click that in the browser it saves it to a file named H_1632.zip. How do I get that name from the page. I suspect to save this to a file I would just do

Hi, I''m using pdf/Writer to generate a pdf-file, but whatever I do, it gets saved in folder of my app, and not on the users desktop. I''ve used pdf = PDF::Writer.new pdf.select_font "Times-Roman" pdf.text "Hello.pdf", :font_size => 12, :justification => :left File.open("hello.pdf", "wb") { |f|

...e.new { |a| a.log = Logger.new("mech.log") } agent.keep_alive = false agent.read_timeout = 60 # the page would timeout sometimes url = "https://website.com/page.php4" page = agent.get(url) page.links.text(/Export to CVS/).each { |link| file_page = agent.click(link) file_page.save_as(''output.csv'') return } What I get in output.csv is just the original page, not the .csv file. If someone could please help me understand how I can nab the file contents instead, I''d greatly appreciate it. (I actually want to eventually parse the csv within the code,...

...# click on the csv radio button > > download_format_form = page_download.forms[3] > download_format_form.radiobuttons[1].click > > # click on the submit link that downloads the csv file. > > download_file = agent.click download_page.search("a")[41] > download_file.save_as("<path_to_file>.csv") > > The problem I am facing in the above code is: > > + Doesn''t do anything special after selecting a particular bill period from > the select options. > + Download the page source in stead of downloading the actual csv file. > &g...

Hi, Does anyone have the formula for getting logged into LinkedIn? Here''s my current attempt: require ''rubygems'' require ''mechanize'' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new home_page = agent.get(''http://www.linkedin.com'') signin_page = agent.click home_page.links.text(''Sign in'') puts "\nSIGNIN PAGE"

...d_text_wrap(0, pdf.y, PDF::Writer.cm2pts(1), "Test1", 12, :left, 0) #pdf.add_text_wrap(PDF::Writer.cm2pts(8.5), pdf.y, PDF::Writer.cm2pts(6), "Test2", 12, :center, 90) pdf.restore_state pdf.close_object pdf.add_object(card, :this_page) end end pdf.save_as("public/pdf/cupones.pdf") end But the generated pdf has a top margin of 36pt, and the cards are then printed in two pages. I need a margin of 0 for the page, to ensure that all that cards are printed at the same page. Also, a couple of cards are printed one on top of the other partiall...

...baseURL=pageContact.uri.host contactURL=''http://''+baseURL+''/mail/GetContacts.aspx'' p contactURL page = agent.get_file(contactURL) p page if (page.code == ''200'') puts "saving contacts.csv" page.save_as(''contacts_msn.csv'') else puts "error downloading contacts" end rescue puts "Err: "+$! puts "Trace:" $@.each {|tl| puts tl } end -- More cowbell, please ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML at...