question: script to input data into a webpage and then retrieve the result?

[Christoph Haas]

On Sunday 22 October 2006 08:06, mxywp wrote:
> Could someone help me with this or share an example script with me?
>
> Here is what I want to accomplish:
> (1) input 3 values into 3 boxes on a web page
> (2) there is an authentication code each time you access this page and I
> have to write this code into the fourth box on the same page (3) click
> "submit" button
> (4) this web page will turn into a page with a table having a value
> calculated from my inputs (5) extract this value into a local file
> (6) repeat the above for 12000 times.
>
> I would really appreciate it if someone can tell me how to do it using
> python script. I am new to python web programming.

Dark side way:
 http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/twill.html

 Christoph

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