As a follow up, would htmlunit be a better choice for web scraping /
automation within App Engine?

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Phil McDonnell
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Has anyone used Watij on appengine?  This is a library that runs a browser
> locally in order to automate filling out fields in a webpage.
>
> I just tried using it from a jsp servlet to test and it failed because it
> calls some privileged methods to run the browser. Has anyone gotten it to
> work? Anyone know if it'll work in regular java if I trigger it via a task
> queue instead of a jsp?
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>

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