Automating interaction with a web-page's JavaScript

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Some websites, like rapidshare, give access to their content using JavaScript-based timers.
This is impossible to circumvent, for someone like me who doesn't really know how web browsers exactly work.

I'd be grateful if someone could provide me with a helpful article explaining how to handle this obstacle (scripts and cookies).

Editor's note: The title was "Automating server-side javascript", which is not technically correct based on the rest of the question. But I'm leaving the old title text here, in case other users search with the same notions in mind.

Need more details...not sure what you mean by a javascript based timer. Sounds like you might be be talking about a standard API over http/ajax? — jdc0589
– jdc0589, Commented Jul 16, 2011 at 21:43

Brock Adams · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-16 22:02:52Z

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You want to change the way a web-site acts when you browse it, yes?

For this, use browser-scripting tools like Greasemonkey¹.

Userscripts.org has a collection of scripts that work for a variety of sites -- including scripts for, say, Rapidshare.

Find a script that does what you want, or tweak a script that's close.
You can sometimes talk people on the Userscripts.org forum into writing new scripts, and SO (here) can help with specific script programming questions.

¹ Greasemonkey is mainly for Firefox, but works to various degrees on Chrome, Opera, Safari, and even IE (very limited). GM scripts work fairly well on Chrome -- especially when using the Tampermonkey extension.

answered Jul 16, 2011 at 22:02

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D.N. · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-16 21:43:25Z

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Javascript is a client-side technology. For server-side, you need something like JSP, ASP, or PHP. These require a web server to host the pages, which process the results and display the generated output to the browser.

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