I am trying to see if any of winbatch products can do this project:
My need is to write a script that will
1. login to url ( open a browser and go to url)
2. navigate the menu ( or switch to url after login)
3. enter date in a dialogue box
4. search for that date on the open browser window screen
5. click on link
6. then open a desktop program
7. interact with the program
is either winbatch or webbatch do any of the above?
WebBatch is a CGI service for Web servers using WIL. If you don't know what the means that is OK because it is not a tool you can use for the task you describe. WinBatch should be able to do what you describe but there are too many variables to say how you go about it our how difficult the task might be. There are several examples of browser automation in the Tech Database but they mostly focus on MSFT's Internet Explorer. I believe there may be a few examples using Firefox or Chrome with help from dotNet assemblies but don't quote me on that.
Yeah, everything is easy until #7. You will have to define what that means. For example, look at https://www.chemicalbook.com/CASDetailList_20000_EN.htm (https://www.chemicalbook.com/CASDetailList_20000_EN.htm)
seems like a simple table to scrape.