Need to send keystrokes to multiple fields on a 3rd party webpage from my vb5 pgm.

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dennisrose

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My problem is similar to your prior post 176859.

I have the need to input name and address info from my vb5 program into another system's name and address fields on their web page.

The code I am using below I got from your post 176859 but it does not work. I am using "whitepage's" website to test this code. I used Whitepage's HTML to find the field names.

What am I doing wrong? Please help!!! Thanks


Dim PostURL As String
PostURL = www.whitepages.com
With CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
.navigate PostURL & _
"?basic_location=23229;basic_name=frost;basic_firstname=jack"
.Visible = True
Do While .busy
DoEvents
Loop
End With
 

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Re: Need to send keystrokes to multiple fields on a 3rd party webpage from my vb5 pgm

Hello and welcome to the Vista Forums!

For WhitePages, until their website changes, there is an easy solution. Do some test searches, and look at the URL, and most importantly, reverse engineer the URL structure. For WhitePages, it is really, really simple! An example search!

http://www.whitepages.com/dir/location/lastname/firstname

It is that simple! Just use a script to navigate to a generated URL.

Richard
 

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Re: Need to send keystrokes to multiple fields on a 3rd party webpage from my vb5 pgm

Richard,

Thanks for the reply. I almost included your solution in my original request, but here is the problem.

On the web page that I need to update (with name and address info), I may not need to input data into all of the fields, so..I need to be able to address each field individually and update only those fields that I have new data for.

How can I accomplish this?
 

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Re: Need to send keystrokes to multiple fields on a 3rd party webpage from my vb5 pgm

I just answered my own question. Here is the code I used:

Screen.MousePointer = vbDefault
PostURL = www.whitepages.com
With CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
.navigate PostURL
.Visible = True
Do While .busy
DoEvents
Loop

.Document.getElementsByName("basic_location").Item(0).Value = "dallas, tx"
.Document.getElementsByName("basic_firstname").Item(0).Value = "jack"
.Document.getElementsByName("basic_name").Item(0).Value = "frost"
End With



Hope this helps someone else!!
 
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