Exists such thing as mozrepl for Safari?

Question

Looking for an Safari extension (or plugin) what acts as mozrepl, what works like a charm. :)

• Exists such thing?

If not, is possible somewhat easily control Safari from external scripts (perl, python, bash)? With control mean:

• GET urls (mean http GET method) - Via safari (e.g. the Safari will send the auth, session cookies, referere and so on).
• get source of the page (after the Safari renders all ajax calls and such)
• POST via Safari (for example using AJAX - but initieted from teh external script)
• etc...
• in short like: "mozrepl" :)

Seems, here is nothing comparable yet. I didn't delete the question, is someone found such thing - please add an answer.

_{Ps: i know, how to use curl or like tools, but this isn't helps for e.g. grabbing a content of pages, where Safari managing the session authentication, cookies, referrers , user-agent strings and so on. Everything is rev-engineerable, but it is much easier to use a tool like mozrepl as doing the fullstack rev-engineering for getting scriptable web-sessions...)}

Answer 1

If the main idea is scripting Safari, I would try using Automator before trying AppleScript. I'd start by hitting the record button and then:

• Open Safari
• Navigate to your webpage
• GET by saving the webpage source
• Allow the page to do whataver AJAX calls you may want it to do
  • save the webpage source again
• Fill out a form, hit submit for your POST
  • save the webpage source yet again

Or you could try AppleScript with something like this:

tell application "Safari"
    tell window 1
    set current tab to (make new tab with properties {URL:"http://www.example.com"})
    end tell
end tell

You can add to the script form fills and submit buttons with javascript:

do JavaScript "document.getElementById('field').value = '" & myvalue & "'"
do JavaScript "document.forms[\"form\"].submit();"

I'd try this out within the JavaScript console within a web browser first to make sure you have the names of everything correct.