WebHawk is a general-purpose scriptless web automation tool designed to get simple to moderately complex automation tasks up and running quickly.

There are many ways to use WebHawk. A few are listed below:

• Watch and alert - WebHawk can be scheduled to monitor a web page for a condition to occur and send a notification when it does.

• Scrape data - WebHawk can scrape data from web pages and export it to XML or to a database.

• Form filling - WebHawk can fill out forms using data pulled in from a database.

• Automate navigation - Save time by recording navigation macros on pages which are not easily linkable.

• Any combination of the above!

WebHawk can either be run in the GUI tool or used directly as a library from your .NET code. Hosting WebHawk as a windows service is on the roadmap.

• The automation engine is built on top of the IE browser API. To support other browsers (and for richer xpath support), swap out the IE browser API with Selenium.

• Move the automation engine, scheduler, and database layer to a windows service and simplify the GUI tool to simply communicate with the service.

• Provide canned sequence templates for the most common use-cases

• Provide a plugin interface for running custom .NET code within a step

• Import / Export support for web-based APIs as an alternative to direct database access

• Import / Export support for Excel formats

• Import support for XML

• Add a step type which injects user-written javascript into the page to allow for the creation of scripted or hybrid sequences

• Add a step type which allows the user to initialize state variables with a static value