Hi all... Can anyone help with trying to scrape a hotmail address book based on the user-id and password given with the help of a java program.. I tried using HTML Unit to do this but the process seems too tedious.. and cant really figure out the hidden variables n stuff in the hotmail website.
Please help me out.... !! thanx !!
Hello... Anybody there to help me out... i need some help badly !! i'm stuck !!
Sorry, you're just going to have to do all that tedious work and spend the time figuring out the hidden variables. Just waving Java at the problem isn't going to help. And neither will JavaMail, it isn't meant for your problem.
Yes i did try that though... But it didnt work... I've made use of HTMLUnit to do this .. I've extracted all the hidden variables and tried to re-post them.. But still wasnt able to sign in to Hotmail through Java.. Here's the code that i tried...
String PwdPad="IfYouAreReadingThisYouHaveTooMuchFreeTime";
final WebClient webClient=new WebClient(BrowserVersion.INTERNET_EXPLORER_6_0);
webClient.setRedirectEnabled(true);
//Get the hotmail page
final URL url=new URL("http://www.hotmail.com");
HtmlPage homePage=null;
homePage=(HtmlPage)webClient.getPage(url);
Search(homePage);
final HtmlForm form=homePage.getFormByName("f1");
final HtmlSubmitInput button=(HtmlSubmitInput) form.getInputByName("SI");
//Settting the user name and password
final HtmlTextInput text1=(HtmlTextInput) form.getInputByName("login");
final HtmlPasswordInput text2=(HtmlPasswordInput) form.getInputByName("passwd");
//Hidden Variables
final HtmlHiddenInput ppsx=(HtmlHiddenInput) form.getInputByName("PPSX");
final HtmlHiddenInput pwdpad=(HtmlHiddenInput) form.getInputByName("PwdPad");
final HtmlHiddenInput ppft=(HtmlHiddenInput) form.getInputByName("PPFT");
System.out.println("The Action is:: "+form.getActionAttribute());
//Re-posting the Entries (PPSX,Login,Password,PwdPad,PPFT)
int len;
len=PwdPad.length()-pass.length();
PwdPad = PwdPad.substring(0, len);
text1.setValueAttribute(email);
text2.setValueAttribute(pass);
//ppsx.setValueAttribute( ppsx.getValueAttribute());
//pwdpad.setValueAttribute( PwdPad);
//ppft.setValueAttribute( ppft.getValueAttribute());
System.out.println("user:"+text1.getValueAttribute() + "password:" + pass+"ppsx:"+ppsx.getValueAttribute()+"PwdPad:"+pwdpad.getValueAttribute()+"ppft:"+ppft.getValueAttribute() + " login opts:");
//URL postURL = new URL ("https://login.live.com/ppsecure/post.srf?id=2&bk=1185180903") ;
URL postURL = new URL (form.getActionAttribute()) ;
WebRequestSettings webRequestSettings = new WebRequestSettings(postURL,SubmitMethod.POST);
String requestBody = "PPSX="+ ppsx.getValueAttribute() +"&PwdPad="+PwdPad+"&login=email%40hotmail.com&passwd="+pass+
"&LoginOptions=2&PPFT=" + ppft.getValueAttribute() ;
webRequestSettings.setRequestBody(requestBody);
//HtmlPage page= ( HtmlPage ) webClient.getPage(webRequestSettings);
HtmlPage page=(HtmlPage)button.click();
System.out.println(page.asText());
