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.

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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.