How To Fill Out Form Data On A Website

I am looking to develop an app that will take login details from the user, go to a website, login, return values on the web page and then display them to the user on the phone. Doe

Solution 1:

Ian, You can try using http-client (http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/) lib from apache. It lets to pro grammatically access a website (from a Java code). You will need to do the following things

1. Use the http-client lib to POST the data to the web site.
2. Receive the html response.
3. Use some html parser or xpath to retrieve the values from the response html.

Solution 2:

You would need a script which accesses the webpage and enters the data, but in my opinion this is illegal. Because you are accessing a secured area and are able to look into sensitive data. Also accessing the page via a script is "botting" - most pages have safety precautions to prevent the execution of scripts, because most of them are harmful. In my opinion there is no legal and easy solution to this.