No I do not work for Etsy in any way, Also the automated tests using watir, taza, rspec, and cucumber do not violate the terms of use for the site or api as far as i understand them.
But in your concern I have fired off a letter to Etsy about this and the ToS. Also if this is in fact the case then I will also send an email to everyone else that has written a tutorial or testing examples using the Etsy site as well this is my blog post about the tests I wrote against etsy http://thechort.com/blog/?p=105 and the code https://github.com/hammernight/etsy_cucumber_taza_tutorial/ On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Chuck van der Linden <[email protected]>wrote: > Before we go any further assisting you with this, can you offer some > assurance that you are either working for Etsy or have specific > written permission to interface with their site in this way? > > Otherwise what you are doing violates their terms of service (see > below) and while I cannot speak for others, I for one refuse to be a > party to any such activity. > > From Etsy's terms of service: > > "11. Access and Interference > > Etsy may contain robot exclusion headers which contain internal rules > for software usage. Much of the information on Etsy is updated on a > real-time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to Etsy by Etsy's > users or third-parties. You agree that you will not use any robot, > spider, scraper or other automated means to access Etsy for any > purpose whatsoever, except to the extent expressly permitted by and in > compliance with Etsy's API Terms of Use or otherwise without Etsy's > prior express written permission. Additionally, you agree that you > will not: > > Take any action that imposes, or may impose, in Etsy's sole > discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on Etsy's > infrastructure > Copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute > or publicly display any user Content (except for your Content) or > other allowed uses as set out in The DOs & DON'Ts of Etsy from the > Site except to the extent expressly permitted by and in compliance > with Etsy's API Terms of Use or otherwise without the prior express > written permission of Etsy and the appropriate third party, as > applicable > Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the > Site or any activities conducted on the Site > Bypass Etsy's robot exclusion headers or other measures Etsy may > use to prevent or restrict access to Etsy > " > > On Oct 3, 10:27 am, bis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, So I came across a strange issue clicking on this drop down in watir. > > but I don't get the same thing using watir-webdriver. > > > > I can click the button and it should open the drop down(list) and I > should > > be able to click on one of the items in that list. but when watir fires > the > > click i see it clicking but it does not open the drop down(list) > > watir-webdriver fires the click opens the dropdown and allows me to > select > > the item in the list i want. any suggestions? > > > > So here is the code on the page <http://www.etsy.com/>. > > > > <form action="http://www.etsy.com/search.php"; id="search-bar" class=""> > > <div class="" style="-moz-user-select: none; cursor: > > default;" id="search-facet" tabindex="0" aria-haspopup="true"> > > <label for="search-query">Handmade</label> > > <iframe style="display: none; width: 178px; > > height: 170px;" src="javascript:false;" id="search-facet-shim" > > tabindex="-1" longdesc="Decorative" title="" frameborder="0"></iframe> > > <ul id="search-facet-list" class="closed" > tabindex="0"> > > <li class="handmade > > selected">Handmade</li> > > <li > class="vintage">Vintage</li> > > <li > class="supplies">Supplies</li> > > <li class="all">All > Items</li> > > <li > class="people">People</li> > > <li class="shops">Shops</li> > > </ul> > > </div> > > <div class="input-group"> > > <input autocomplete="off" value="" > > name="search_query" id="search-query" class="text" tabindex="0" > > type="text"><div style="top: 42px; left: 0px; width: 369px; display: > > none;" id="search-suggestions"></div> > > <button id="search_submit" name="search_submit" > > type="submit"> > > Search > > </button> > > </div> > > <input value="handmade" name="search_type" > > id="search-type" type="hidden"> > > </form> > > > > now you would think that a simple. > > > > b.label(:for => 'search-query').click > > b.li(:text => 'Supplies').click > > > > but it doesn't at least not with watir, watir-webdriver on the other hand > > works just fine > > > > #chrome: > > irb > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :001 > require 'rubygems' > > => true > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :002 > require 'watir-webdriver' > > => true > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :003 > b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome > > => #<Watir::Browser:0x101a9ebb8 url="about:blank" title="about:blank"> > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :004 > b.goto 'http://www.etsy.com > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :005'> => "http://www.etsy.com/"; > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :006 > b.label(:for => 'search-query').html > > => "<label for=\"search-query\">Handmade</label>" > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :007 > b.label(:for => 'search-query').click > > => [] > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :008 > b.li(:text => 'Supplies').html > > => "<li class=\"supplies\">Supplies</li>" > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :009 > b.label(:for => 'search-query').click > > => [] > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :010 > b.li(:text => 'Supplies').click > > => [] > > > > and with firefox > > > > #firefox > > irb > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :001 > require 'rubygems' > > => true > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :002 > require 'watir-webdriver' > > => true > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :003 > b = Watir::Browser.new :ff > > => #<Watir::Browser:0x101a9ec08 url="about:blank" title=""> > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :004 > b.goto "http://www.etsy.com"; > > => "http://www.etsy.com/"; > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :005 > b.label(:for => 'search-query').click > > => [] > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :006 > b.li(:text => 'Supplies').click > > => [] > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :007 > b.close > > => true > > ruby-1.8.7-p334 :008 > > > > > Thanks > > Oscarhttp://www.thechort.com/blog/ > > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > [email protected]<http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general%[email protected]> > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected]
