Hello!
I'm looking for a way to automatize a process using existing basic
Firefox functionality. Basically, what I want to do is:
- Load a website
- Parse it and create the DOM tree
- Access the DOM tree and look for certain features
... and all this in an automatic scripted fashion.
Clearly, Firefox is capable of providing the functionality. What I don't
know is, how can I script this using Firefox components?
Of ocurse, I would prefer not to have to familiarize myself with a large
portion of the FF source code. In fact, if possible, source changes
should be avoided completely, since my demands are not very specific I
think. I have come accross XPCOM, which sounds like a nice way to
control Gecko (and thus, I hope, everything I need). However, I haven't
found any resources on how exactly I can use the XPCOM components (or at
least where to find them) that are already included in Firefox. I would
have hoped to find e.g. an HTTP parser component, that i could
instantiate and control (using XPCOM) from within my perl|python|c++
application. I would be very happy to be pointed to an example for doing
such a thing.
In case I'm totally on the wrong track and XPCOM is not suitable for my
task, what would be the recommendable way? How to script the Firefox
internals?
Regards,
Peter.
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