Web crawler/scraping

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 at 12:12:56 UTC, Carlos Cabral 
wrote:
> I'm trying to collect some json data from a website/admin panel 
> automatically, which is behind a login form.

Does the website need javascript?

If not, my dom.d may be able to help. It can download some HTML, 
parse it, fill in forms, then my http2.d submits it (I never 
implemented Form.submit in dom.d but it is pretty easy to make 
with other functions that are implemented, heck maybe I'll 
implement it now if it sounds like it might work).

Or if it is all json you might be able to just craft some 
requests with my lib or even phobos' std.net.curl that submits 
the login request, saves a cookie, then fetches some json stuff.

I literally just rolled out of bed but in an hour or two I can 
come back and make some example code for you if this sounds 
plausible.