First of all, sorry for my English 🙂
I’m web developer. Generally coding in PHP.
Recently started to learn C++.
I want to create simple application which will simplfy daily routine works. For ex,Every time when I check my internet banking account, must login to my account via any browser. What I wanna do is, to create mini windows application which will store my login and pass, will login to my account, and show exact page what I see on browser directly after login. Website that I’m talking about is here
The problem, I can’t find any tutorial about creating such application. Don’t know where to start. Did research but found nothing about this. (Maybe I selected wrong keywords :)) So decided to post question here. I don’t need your code, just give me starting point, where to learn to create applications as I described above.
And one more question: Is it important to know website’s coding language before building such windows apps? I mean: PHP/C#… etc
Thx in advance
Not sure why you would pick C++ for this type of project, though it’s possible, it would be quite tedious. I would recommend looking into Java, perl, ruby, python, or some other language that supports the Selenium Webdriver API. You can also use the mechanize API with Perl, which is also a bit tedious. I’ve done things like this in the past with success using Selenium (http://seleniumhq.org). Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a Webdriver API for C++ as of yet (you could try writing one!), but there are definitely APIs available for the other languages I posted. Check out: http://seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.html#programming-languages.
EDIT
If you’re more interested in screen scraping with C++, this question, and some answers within the thread, may prove useful to you as well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/489522/library-recommendation-c-html-parser