Hello all.
I am projecting a lot of REST API programming, but some sites do not provide APIs and all the web scraper systems I have looked at wasn't robust enough to use in a business applikation. The only two frameworks worth talking about seemed to be HTQL from http://htql.net/ and Watir from http://watir.com/.
So now I am trying to determine what framework to use in conjunction with AutoIt.
Q1: Does anybody have any experience with AutoIt and HTQL, and was it positive and how to best use it in AutoIt? Maybe in conjunction with the Irobotsoft framework.....
Q2: Does anybody have any experience with Watir in AutoIt, and how did it perform, and how to use it in AutoIt?
Q3: I have searched this forum for REST examples. Did anybody have some different level examples on using REST in AutoIt? I only have some rudimentary examples right now.
Purpose: Just to for clarification, the framework is to be used for searching several webistes for information about a company. Sites like Facebook (They have a nice API) Linkedin (also having API) Eniro (Nice API), and the companies own website (NO API). Google search (NO API) (Google + has an API) and so on. You get the picture. My App resembles the Salesforce Radian6 but for the Office365 Office 2013 platform.
It sounds like a lot, and it is, but so far a fun project.