Questions tagged [automation]
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Web Browsing Automation with Mathematica
I want to build a bot to automate web browsing, this mean something like:
filling forms
press "submit" buttons
find certain text inside pages
and so on...
How can I do this with Mathematica?
The <...
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How to automate generation of image files?
I need to generate a large number of figures as PNG files, and I'm trying to decide whether Mathematica would be the quickest way to do this.
All the figures have the same basic structure, and I'm ...
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Automatic e-mail/text message when a calculation has finished?
Sometimes Mathematica takes quite a while to finish calculations and it would be convenient to be able to move away from the computer while it is working. I was wondering if there is any "clever" hack ...
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Is it possible to create Evaluatable cell which will be automatically overwritten?
Am trying to generate an Evaluatable cell which itself is an output cell which will be overwritten when the original Input cell ...
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Seeking strategies to deploy a function securely without a front end
Background
I have a fuction, which calculates an analytic solution to a multi-dimentional geometry problem.
The function takes a list of real numbers (typically less than a dozen) and outputs a ...
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Programmatically quitting the FrontEnd or running without one?
I have a conundrum.
I use an iMac's OS X 10.6.8 settings to start and stop the machine at the specific times that I need a particular notebook to run. I've done this because it has worked more ...
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UseFrontEnd is not working the same in version 10.4
I'm using batch files to run Mathematica notebooks (with saved output) but in version 10.4 the functionality has changed. Any ideas how to get it working?
I use a batch file to run a .m script which ...
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How to omit the authentification dialog during URLRead?
When I use URLRead
Mathematica will popup a window like:
Actually I have given the parameters Password and ...
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Restarting Mathematica automatically
I run a large computation in a loop. At each cycle of the loop
I produce large arrays that I save on a disk. At each cycle I would like to Quit Mathematica and ...
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Web Browsing Automation: how to expand all comments under a blog post?
I wish to expand all the comments under a LiveJournal post for the purposes of saving the complete thread of comments. According to LiveJournal's FAQ when a post gets more than 50 comments they are ...
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How to derive finite-difference scheme automatically on a quite general stencil
Info
This question is a generalization of the following one Derivation of numerical scheme for linear transport equation on a variable stencil.
Statement of a problem
Linear scalar hyperbolic (...
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how to plot the dispersion curve in first brillouin zone?
Those who know some solid state physics should know what the first brillouin zone is. How do I plot the dispersion relation in the 1st brillouin zone so that the curves can 'fold back'?
For instance ...
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Randomizing a lab
I teach a class where students do a weekly lab in Mathematica. They do it in a computer lab, and because there are many of them, and only one of me, I encourage them to help one another. ...
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Naming Excel Sheets automatically
After performing some calculations with excel sheets I end with a tridimensional matrix a to be export to a .xlsx format and a vector q that contains the name of all the sheets (so $Length[q] = Length[...
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What could cause an “Uncaught Throw[$Failed,CURLLink`Utilities`Exception] returned to top level.” error message?
I am running a program in Mathematica that uses web browser automation, and is also connected to my email account. The program runs fine for a while, but after a few hours, I end up getting the ...
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KeyPress function in Java's Robot class, how to state parameter?
I am trying to use Java's Robot class to type. This is what I have done so far.
Needs["JLink`"];
InstallJava[];
robot = JavaNew["java.awt.Robot"]
The mouseMove ...
