# Automating mouse clicks

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automating-mouse-clicks/58745>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 20, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automating-mouse-clicks/58745 "2001-03-20T17:53:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![RedDawgEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dbc845/32.png) [@RedDawgEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedDawgEsq)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automating-mouse-clicks/58745/1 "2001-03-20T17:53:59Z")

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This is probably not the correct forum to pose this problem, but I don’t know where else to start. If it can’t be answered here, SURELY someone will tell me where to go…

Without getting into a long-winded discussion about WHY I need to do this, here is the problem: There are long periods (approaching several hours) when I an away from my computer keyboard, during which I need to “click” the mouse cursor on a positionally-fixed web page link in order to update the page information, which is then sent back out (uploaded) to a video server. It’s no problem, of course, to leave the mouse cursor positioned over the link that needs to be clicked, but how do I “command” the button click, say, once every two minutes (or other selectable interval)? Can this be done? Private email responses welcome.

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**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automating-mouse-clicks/58745/2 "2001-03-20T22:47:28Z")

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This program should do it. And don’t call me Shirley.

[http://www.progenic.com/software/fakesurf/](http://www.progenic.com/software/fakesurf/)