You may be interested in Alister's Etsy code at https://github.com/alisterscott/EtsyWatirWebDriver/
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:56 PM, bis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > -- 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]
