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Description
ZennoPoster allows using HTTP requests when working with different websites. You can receive data with GET requests, for example, request search results by request in a search enginesystem, download files, parse data, work with API of web services and applications. Performing actions without a browser can significantly reduce the load on computer resources.
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Via the context menu Add Action → HTTP → GET request
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Or use smart search .
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What is it used for?
Working templates without a browser
A quick way to get data from the site
Download files
Working with the service API
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The address of the site to which the request will be sent, you can use a variable.
Referer
The Referer request header contains the URL of the original page from which the current page was navigated. The Referer header allows the server to find out where the link to the requested page came from.
Variable macros can be used.
Encoding
The encoding in which the request will be sent.
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The maximum time to wait for a response from the site in seconds. When the set time is reached, the action will be completed with an error and will exit on the red thread.
Variable macros can be used.
Load
Content only
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By default, files are downloaded to the Trash folder in the ZennoPoster installed directory. The path to it may look like this - C: \ Program Files \ ZennoLab \ RU \ ZennoPoster Pro V7 \ 7.4.0.0 \ Progs \ Trash \ googlelogo_color_92x30dp.png
You can change this path in the settings, globally for all projects. Or by using an action during template execution.
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How to work with an action: More Tab
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Redirect
Set redirection - if the response to the request contains a redirect code (eg response 301, 302), Zennoposter will use the Location header to go to the next page. The numbers indicate the maximum number of clicks: 0 - stay on the original page, 5 - the number of clicks to the final url.
Use original URL
Disable url encoding from the "Main" tab in urlencode.
Example:
Original url: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeting
Default: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B5
Headers
Use default
Default headers will be substituted into the request. This is how they look (for the example of a request to https://httpbin.org/get, the Host header will change depending on the URL in the request)
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Host: httpbin.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 |
Current profile
The titles from the current project profile will be substituted.
Load from profile
You must select a file or specify a variable containing the path to the profile from which the headers for the request will be loaded.
User settings
Allows you to specify each request header parameter yourself.
Request headers
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The first is always (!) the string User-Agent! And only then all the other headers. |
Each header starts with a new line.
You can specify static values, custom variables, or profile variables.
Cookie
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You can specify ready-made cookies or from a variable.
Format: name=value, several are separated by; (semicolon). Example:
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user=1992103;session=f79fcadd847b80f9df78ba4fb276c867;id=889 |
Starting from version 7.1.6.0 (5.45.0.0) this input field is displayed only if the Use Cookie Container setting is disabled (described below).
Use Cookie Container
Cookie Container allows you to synchronize cookies both with the browser and between individual requests, without the need for manual parsing and substitution.
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The project works with the site using requests, but you need to be authorized to work. Let's imagine that the authorization process is very complicated, so that it can be repeated on requests, therefore, to enter the site, we use the browser mode. Then we turn off the browser and start working with the site using requests. By enabling the Use Cookie Container setting, cookies will be automatically synchronized between the browser and requests, you do not need to do anything manually - cookies will be substituted automatically. And if, during one of the requests, the site returns a new value for one or more cookies, these new values will be automatically synchronized. And when executing the next request (or when opening the site through the built-in browser), the updated value will be used. |
Example of User Settings
Using profile variables for headers and manual cookie substitution.
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How to work with an action: Proxy Tab
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Without a proxy
The action works using the real ip of the computer \ server.
Active project proxy
The proxy installed in the project is used.
The format string
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We indicate our proxies in the format (you can specify a variable):
a) With authorization - socks5: // login: password @ ip: port or http: // login: password @ ip: port
b) Without authorization - socks5: // ip: port or http: // ip: port
c) Without specifying the protocol (http: // will be used by default) - login: password @ ip: port or ip: port
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Select if you need to specify detailed proxy settings. Proxy type, authorization data, address and port. Check with your service provider for information.
Variables can be used in all input fields.
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Creating Actions from Traffic Monitor Requests
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A ready-made HTTP request can be created directly from the Traffic Window.
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Hover the cursor over the required query and right-click to call the context menu.
Click Create Action from Request.
A fully filled HTTP request action appears on the project canvas.
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If you work exclusively with the help of requests, then you can turn off the browser, thereby saving computer resources; you can do this either in the project settings or using the Browser Settings action.
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HTTP-Request transfer method
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You can change the method of sending requests in the program settings (globally for all projects) or in the settings of a specific project.
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Usage example
Find out the current ip address from which the project is running.
To do this, just make a GET request at https://api.ipify.org/, and in the Proxy tab, select the Current proxy of the project.
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Useful links
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