Scripts to interface with websites?!

Hi there, thanks for reading my thread.

Whether it is a good idea or not, I have been using ASP on my local computer for some time now to create scripts and webpages that I never intended to go "online". I have taught myself a fair amount over the last few years to do a few "projects" that I set myself.

Just recently, I learned how to pull data off of the internet and parse the resulting text stream to store data in a database using a "winHTTP" component.

I was pleased with the results of the script as it could run a loop each day and perform a repetive task for me.

Now, I was wondering if it is possible to get a computer script to interface with a website. There are countless websites on the net with "forms" to be filled in or buttons to be clicked, and I was wondering how existing automatic scripts do this??

Is it possible to get a script written in something like VBScript to do this - as in, fill in a form, "click" a button etc?

If anyone has any advice on doing this I would be very grateful.

Regards,

Porky

<aside>I know that scripts similar to the ones described above are used for spamming and brute-forcing(sp), cheating at online games, etc. For the record, I don't intend to do this as it does not interest me...just in case anyone was worried! I also get a sneaking suspicion(sp) that the particular website I am interested in will disallow them anyway, even though I don't wish to do evil deeds!!</aside>