Record http form posts via a browser

Question

I'm trying to automate the login to a website and submission of a form.

Is there a browser plugin (for firefox or Chrome) that allows you to record HTTP GET and POST requests in a form that allows them to be played back at a later point? I'm looking for something that will be possible to automate from a script e.g. via curl or wget.

I've tried using the Chrome developer tools to capture POST form data but I get errors when trying to replicate the request with wget which suggests I'm missing some cookies or other parameters. Ideally there would a nice automated way of doing this rather than doing lots of trial and error.

Answer 1

In Firefox, turn on the Persist option in Firebug to be sure to capture the POST. Then install and use the "Bookmark POST" add-on to bookmark the POST request for later use.

Answer 2

The Safari developer tools and Firebug are sufficient for your needs.

Answer 3

Request Maker chrome plugin does that. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/request-maker/kajfghlhfkcocafkcjlajldicbikpgnp?hl=en

Answer 4

Have you tried Selenium?

Answer 5

Not exactly a browser plugin, but Fiddler can capture all the HTTP data passing back and forth; with FiddlerScript or FiddlerCore, it is then simple to export that into a text file - and pass that into cURL as request headers and request body.

Answer 6

Recently I cam across this beautiful chrome extension which does what you ask: Katalon Recorder

Katalon Recorder will make your test automation work a lot easier.

• Record, play, debug with speed control, pause/resume, breakpoints capabilities.

• Enjoy fastest execution speed compared to other extensions with Selenium 3 core engine.

• Make use of multiple locator types including XPath & CSS.

• Use original Selenium IDE commands (Selenese), plus block statement if...elseIf...else...endIf and while...endWhile. Testing file input control is supported.

• Import test data from CSV files for data-driven testing.

• Report easily with logs, screenshots capturing, with historical data and analytics from Katalon Analytics.

• Compose & organize test cases in suites. Never get your work lost with autosave feature.

• Import original Selenium IDE (Firefox extension) tests.

• Export to Selenium WebDriver scripts in these frameworks: C# (MSTest and NUnit), Java (TestNG and JUnit), Ruby (RSpec), Python (unittest), Groovy (Katalon Studio), Robot Framework, and XML.