using vbscript to read / save a webpage

Question

goal: log into the web page and save the html to a file for parsing later.

the html on the page is just a list of users and when they logged in and off.

When yo

Answer 1

I'd suggest to use something like Fiddler to identify the request that does the actual login, and then use that information in an XMLHttpRequest.

url      = "..."
filename = "..."

Set req = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.6.0")
req.open "POST", url, False
req.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
req.send "field1=foo&field2=bar&..."

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
fso.OpenTextFile(filename, 2, True).WriteLine req.responseText

If the response is UTF-8 encoded you may need to use an ADODB.Stream object for saving the content.

Set stream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
stream.Open
stream.Type     = 2 'text
stream.Position = 0
stream.Charset  = "utf-8"
stream.WriteText req.responseText
stream.SaveToFile filename, 2
stream.Close