topic Re: SAS internet automation in SAS Data Management

SAS internet automation

ilikesas — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 01:36:50 GMT

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to do internet automation with SAS.

For example, is it possible to write a SAS program that will open my Chrome browser, go to Wikipedia and search for 'SAS'

Thank you!

Re: SAS internet automation

RahulG — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:16:52 GMT

The below code will open wikipedia with Search string sas.

data _null_;

x 'cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\';

x 'chrome.exe "wikipedia.org/wiki/sas" ';

run;

Actually speaking, it is internet automation with DOS. I am calling DOS command through SAS datasetep.

Re: SAS internet automation

ilikesas — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:30:44 GMT

Hi RahulG, thank you for the quick reply!!

I do realize that this can be done by extending the 'sas' into the url, but is it possible to actually write 'sas' in the search box?

Thank you!

Re: SAS internet automation

RW9 — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 09:53:05 GMT

I would expect you need to know the API for the specific web page, e.g. passing something like:

wikipedia.org/wiki/search=?SAS?

in as the URL - note the above doesn't work, its an example. The question I would raise is why, what is it your trying to achieve? I don;t see any benefits of putting this kind of thing in code, your just adding a layer of obfuscation.

Re: SAS internet automation

Reeza — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:49:05 GMT

I don't think it can. If you need something like that Selenium is a good tool to use.

Re: SAS internet automation

ilikesas — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 20:42:11 GMT

Hi Reeza,

If it is pyton selenium that you mean, I already looked at it, and was hoping if something similar can be done with SAS. But if it can't then I guess that I will have to us python and selenium.

Thank you!