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Post Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:02 am   Post subject: Firefox schedule URL add-on needed Reply with quote Back to top  
I need a FireFox addon that will automatically run a specified URL of my choice at a specified interval. Basically like a cron job, but I need it to run from FF since I have to be logged into said website for the task to perform correctly.

For example

Run "http://www.example.com?task=123" every 5 minutes
Run "http://www.example.com?task=567" every 1 hour

I have searched the FF add-ons page without success. I also tried the Greasemonkey addon, but I haven't found any scripts that do this, and I don't not to good at JS.

Any suggestions?

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Post Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:43 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Opera has such and option (right click select "reload page ever...") but I've not come across anything for fire fox to do this. (looked briefly, but then I just used opera for the sites I wanted to reload every so often automagically)

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Post Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:18 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115

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Post Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:42 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
AnalogKid wrote:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115

That's close, but I would have to have the page already loaded and I would have to leave it up. I want it to be completely transparent....just silently ping that address at specified intervals whenever FF is running.

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Post Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:33 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
gregw wrote:
AnalogKid wrote:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115

That's close, but I would have to have the page already loaded and I would have to leave it up. I want it to be completely transparent....just silently ping that address at specified intervals whenever FF is running.
How is Firefox going to load the page if it is not running? You would have to initially schedule a task in Windows to load it when you login or at sometime during your login. That addon seems just like what you were looking for.
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Post Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:46 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
squashman wrote:
gregw wrote:
AnalogKid wrote:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115

That's close, but I would have to have the page already loaded and I would have to leave it up. I want it to be completely transparent....just silently ping that address at specified intervals whenever FF is running.
How is Firefox going to load the page if it is not running? You would have to initially schedule a task in Windows to load it when you login or at sometime during your login. That addon seems just like what you were looking for.

I just want FF to be running (which it usually is). I don't want to have actually have a tab with each of those specific pages loaded all the time.

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Post Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:07 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
so you just want to keep your login from timing out basically? not actually keep the pages your reloading open all the time...

good luck with that.

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Post Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:27 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I'm confused.
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Post Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:37 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
best i can suggest is use curl ( cross-platform ) and login each time to refresh the page, that way you just setup a cronjob ( 2 of them, one for each ), and have it run each batch file.

your trying to take the web browsing out of a web browser to load a page, and afaik, thats not possible with firefox.

if you want to try the curl approach, let me know.



---- whoops, i just saw this is from july haha, but answer still applies.
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Post Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:47 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
wolven wrote:
best i can suggest is use curl ( cross-platform ) and login each time to refresh the page, that way you just setup a cronjob ( 2 of them, one for each ), and have it run each batch file.

your trying to take the web browsing out of a web browser to load a page, and afaik, thats not possible with firefox.

if you want to try the curl approach, let me know.



---- whoops, i just saw this is from july haha, but answer still applies.

Curl was the first thing I tried, but it won't work since curl doesn't operate within the browser window, thus it has no access to the cookies that show that I'm logged in.

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Post Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:14 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
use curl to log yourself in.. it can save and re-submit cookies, do GET's and POST's.. and thus do it all for ya Smile
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