ANNOUNCING twill v0.9. twill is a simple language for browsing the Web. It's designed for automated testing of Web sites, but it can be used to interact with Web sites in a variety of ways. In particular, twill supports form submission, cookies, redirects, and HTTP authentication. This release of twill is officially "Pretty Dang Stable". A twill script to use the "I'm feeling lucky" button on Google looks like this: setlocal query "twill Python" go http://www.google.com/ fv 1 q $query submit btnI # use the "I'm feeling lucky" button show (Note that using this script abuses Google's Terms of Service. So don't.) You can install the latest release of twill with easy_install, easy_install twill or download this release at http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.9.tar.gz Documentation is included in the .tar.gz and is also online at http://twill.idyll.org/ Miscellaneous details: twill is implemented in Python and uses pyparsing and mechanize. In addition to the existing simple command language, twill can easily be extended with Python. twill also provides a fairly simple and well-documented wrapper around mechanize. Note that twill does not understand JavaScript. --- Significant changes with 0.9: - many small bugs were fixed, of course! - patched subprocess pipe problem (Chris Abraham). This fixes problems with long-running twill processes. - twill now "plays nice" with other versions of mechanize and ClientForm (good for including it in distributions). - Corrected license information => MIT in all files. - new 'info' command gives human-readable page summary.