***Automation (from LOCAL to SERVER) working with 3rd party

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mm-93
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***Automation (from LOCAL to SERVER) working with 3rd party

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Thanks in advance for checking out my post and responding! ;D

Automation (from LOCAL to SERVER) and working with 3rd party forms and data... I use automation locally that does everything from register our users to 3rd party sites (by permission from all sides) to logging them in and configuring details for them etc...

My questions are the following and thanks for any response:
1) How can I register on another site from my server automatically? (i.e. hit their sign up form and pull user data from our MySQL database and use that to programatically register with them.)

2) How would you approach the whole aggregating data feature? My script needs to login to a 3rd party site (by permission) and grab data from a specific user account and pull it back so they can view it in one place. I have checked out fetch.com and tethyssolutions.com but wanted to get your expert opinion on the best way to go. I know mint.com does this with screen scraping and ajax controls etc...

Any responses are totally appreciated. Thanks again!

Mitch
ody3307
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Re: ***Automation (from LOCAL to SERVER) working with 3rd party

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Well, I don't know about "expert" opinion but...
PHP's cURL funtions will do everything you need for this type of automated activity. It can be done other ways but cURL is the easiest by far.
mm-93
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ody3307 wrote:Well, I don't know about "expert" opinion but...
PHP's cURL funtions will do everything you need for this type of automated activity. It can be done other ways but cURL is the easiest by far.
Thanks for the response... Do you know of any out of the box scripts that make use of cURL to submit forms and pull data from 3rd party sites? Thanks!
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Re: ***Automation (from LOCAL to SERVER) working with 3rd party

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No, sorry I write my own.

There is an excellent book on the subject from No Starch Press called Webots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers.
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