How to automate filling web forms and so?

17 11 2007

iMacros is the Firefox add-on that you need to install in your Mozill Firefox browser. I read about how one guy (uberaffiliate.com) pwned Facebook using iMacros and made some cash. What he did is that he created around 500 Facebook accounts by automating Facebook new user sign-up form filling with a macro in iMacros! In iMacros you can record your activities using Record functionality, save it as a macro, edit it and play it as many times as you want. So you just need to record Facebook new user sign-up activity only once, and then copy+paste it inside macro as many times as you want.
What about email? It should be different each time. If you have registered domain, then it is easy! In order to use different email address each time, you just need to create one Email Forwarding account for your domain (abc@yourdomain.com) and make it “Catch All” account.

(GoDaddy.com Help) A catch-all email account is an address that is specified to receive all messages that are addressed to an incorrect email address for a domain. For example, you have three email addresses set up for coolexample.com; info@coolexample.com, sales@acoolexample.com, and webmaster@coolexample.com, you can set up info@coolexample.com as a catch-all email account. Then, any email messages sent to manager@coolexample.com (or any other invalid email address), are sent to the catch-all account (info@coolexample.com).

You can set up one email address as a catch-all account per domain name.

imacro

Once you install it, it will appear on the left side of the browser. It’s very easy to learn how to use it. There are 3 functions; Play, Record, Edit. After recording the macros, you can open it (by default it opens with Notepad), edit and save it. You can export info to CSV files as well.

Ways to use it;

  1. Form Filler & Password Manager
  2. Automated Download & Upload
  3. Data Extraction, Web Scraping/Mining & Enterprise Data Mash-Ups
  4. Web Testing
  5. Social Scripting (Social Bookmarking)
  6. and others (upto your imagination!)

I just started testing it, and already big fan of it!

Hint: (If you already haven’t thought about it yet) It can be used to generate traffic (pageloads) in your blogs (CPMs!!!), create repetitive affiliate referrals (you gotta play with macros a lot), and in many other evil ways. But I’m sure people on the other side are also smart enough to track it down. I do not recommend! :P


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