***Automation (from LOCAL to SERVER) working with 3rd party forms and data

[mitchflorida]

Thanks in advance for checking out my post and responding!

 

So regarding automation (from LOCAL to SERVER) and working with 3rd party forms and data... I currently have a bunch of automation locally that does everything from register our users to 3rd party sites (by permission from all sides btw) to logging them in and configuring details for them etc...

 

My questions are the following and thanks for any response:

1) How can I register on another site from my server automatically? (i.e. hit their sign up form and pull user data from our MySQL database and use that to programatically register with them.)

 

2) How would you approach the whole aggregating data feature? My script needs to login to a 3rd party site (by permission) and grab data from a specific user account and pull it back so they can view it in one place.  I have checked out fetch.com and tethyssolutions.com but wanted to get your expert opinion on the best way to go. I know mint.com does this with screen scraping and ajax controls etc...

 

Any responses are totally appreciated. Thanks again!

 

Mitch

http://www.xpancom.com

[mitchflorida]

I heard of using cURL for this... Anybody have any experience using cURL to login to another site, screen scrape data and pull it back? Thanks again!