A very simple script driving me mad

[Malc Fowler]

Hi all,

New to Casperjs so excuse the stupid question.

I am trying to automate the retreival of data from www.iagcargo.com.  The functionality is quite simple,  complete two fields on a form and click the search button. (In future these will be passed as arguments)

I have copied someone elses code to make sure the script is running in the correct order. Step four will not run.  I have tried various ways to click the SEARCH button on this web page to no avail. Can anyone help?

Thanks

var casper = require('casper').create();

var x = require('casper').selectXPath;

casper.userAgent('Mozilla/4.0 (compatable; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)');

casper.start();

casper.then(function step1() {
    this.echo('this is step two');
});

casper.thenOpen('https://www.iagcargo.com/iagcargo/portlet/en/html/601/main/search', function step2() {
    this.echo('this is step 2 - IAG is open');
});

casper.then(function step3() {
    this.echo('this is step Three');
    this.sendKeys('#awb_cia','125');
    this.sendKeys('#awb_cod','36486914');    
   
});

casper.then(function step4() {
    casper.click(x('//*[contains(text(),"'+SEARCH+'")]'));
   
        waitForText('Booked on flight',function(){
        this.echo('this is step five');
        casper.capture('iag2.png');        
    });
   
});


require('utils').dump(casper.steps.map(function(step) {
    return step.toString();
}));

   
casper.run();

[tim nolet]

Hi,

I think the stray "waitForText" method is causing trouble. Also, your Xpath selector is a bit verbose. Here is a working version of your script. Hope it helps!

var casper = require('casper').create();

var x = require('casper').selectXPath;

casper.userAgent('Mozilla/4.0 (compatable; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)');

casper.start();

casper.then(function step1() {

    this.echo('this is step two');

});

casper.thenOpen('https://www.iagcargo.com/iagcargo/portlet/en/html/601/main/search', function step2() {

    this.echo('this is step 2 - IAG is open');

});

casper.then(function step3() {

    this.echo('this is step Three');

    this.sendKeys('#awb_cia','125');

    this.sendKeys('#awb_cod','36486914'); 

});

casper.then(function step4() {

this.echo('step 4')

    this.click(x('//*[@value="Search"]'));     

    this.waitForText('Booked on flight', function(){

[Malc Fowler]

Tim,

Thank you so much for that, I had spent hours on it nd can't believe I was so close. I've been programming in PHP for years but I'm finding the Casper Javascript a bit challenging at the moment.

Regards
Malcolm

[tim nolet]

Np! CasperJs is pretty cool and powerful, but the error handling and logging can be a bit spartan!

[Ken]

Not sure if something like this would be useful for you, I made a general purpose web automation tool that is base purely on CasperJS. It's designed for non-developers, so it is very simple to use as developers. Basically converts natural-like language into working JS code to run CasperJS. Error-checking, live mode, Chrome extension etc etc... I use it for rapid prototyping and development of web automation.

http://github.com/tebelorg/TagUI