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royd
Regular Contributor
9 years ago
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How can I access url and a string from email (web mail)?

I am using TestComplete version 12.10602.7 with Jscript.   I'm trying to access an URL and password for new user sign-up process. I am using webmail by mail the mailinator.com (saw a suggesion in t...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    9 years ago

    Also, if the e-mail as received is in HTML format, it's possible that the URL in the email body is an actual HTML link. In which case, finding the URL could be a matter of using something like a FindChild call on the email body to find the link and grab the URL from there.  I'm GUESSING that there is a static portion of that link that is common no matter who gets the e-mail (perhaps the https://<signupage.com> portion) that you can use as part of the search parameters.

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Colin_McCrae
Community Hero
9 years ago

How far have you got?

 

Have you got to the point where you're finding the mail, opening it, and extracting the content text?

 

I'm not a JScript/JavaScript guy so can't really help with examples. But I have done this in the past (using VBScript) and I suspect the basics will be the same.

 

Find the mail.

Open it.

Extract the content text.

Find relevant keywords in the content text - eg "HTTPS:" - to give you start/end points of URL's.

Use these start/end points to extract the URL string.

Drop it into a browser.

Away you go ....

 

But it would help to know how far you've got in the above list ....

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    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    9 years ago

    Also, if the e-mail as received is in HTML format, it's possible that the URL in the email body is an actual HTML link. In which case, finding the URL could be a matter of using something like a FindChild call on the email body to find the link and grab the URL from there.  I'm GUESSING that there is a static portion of that link that is common no matter who gets the e-mail (perhaps the https://<signupage.com> portion) that you can use as part of the search parameters.