Question

I am using simpleTest WebBrowser for DataScraping on this URL http://www.magicbricks.com/bricks/agentSearch.html. But though everything seems right I always get the error City Field is required. I guess the problem might be with the fact that values in city field changes dynamically when value of State changes. Any solutions? Here is my code.

<?php
require_once('simpletest/browser.php');

$browser = &new SimpleBrowser();
$browser->addHeader('User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2');
$browser->get('http://www.magicbricks.com/bricks/agentSearch.html');
$browser->setField('source','agentSearch');
$browser->setField('_transactionType','1');
$browser->setField('_propertyType','1');
$browser->setField('resultPerPage','50');
$browser->setField('agentSearchType','B');
$browser->setField('state','520');
$browser->setField('city','4320');
$browser->setField('keyword','');
$browser->setField('country','50');

print $browser->submitFormById('searchFormBean');
print $browser->getResponseCode()

?>

Answer 1

Here are some errors i noticed

Field Missing

1. Missing agentSearchType field
2. Missing transactionType ( There is Both transactionType & _transactionType)
3. missing propertyType ( There is both propertyType & _propertyType)

There are some header information you need to add such as

1. Referer
2. Cookie

A typical post test should come this format if you view the headers

        POST http://www.magicbricks.com/bricks/agentSearch.html HTTP/1.1
        Host: www.magicbricks.com
        Connection: keep-alive
        Content-Length: 173
        Cache-Control: max-age=0
        Origin: http://www.magicbricks.com
        User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79 Safari/535.11
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
        Referer: http://www.magicbricks.com/bricks/agentSearch.html
        Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
        Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
        Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
        Cookie: JSESSIONID=nF1UqV3DM2tZC42zByYm6Q**.MBAPP09; __utma=163479907.1423216630.1331970312.1331970312.1331970312.1; __utmb=163479907.1.10.1331970312; __utmc=163479907; __utmz=163479907.1331970312.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); _mbRunstats=3k0ilrpcgprh4tea

        source=agentSearch&agentSearchType=B&country=51&state=601&city=8417&transactionType=11951&_transactionType=1&propertyType=10001&_propertyType=1&keyword=tesy&resultPerPage=50

I hope this helps

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