best set of modules for web automation without javascript

coldpizza vriolk at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 05:08:38 EST 2009


You should have a look at twill:
   http://twill.idyll.org

It seems to be no longer maintained, but will probably do most of what
you expect. And it is built on top of mechanize.


On Feb 13, 4:04 pm, News123 <news... at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to do some web automation with python 2.5
> - https:
> - a cookiejar
> - some forms to be filled in
>
> what is the best set of modules.
>
> As far as I understood, there is httplib, but it seems (if I understood
> well) to be incoompatible with cookielib
>
> I'm a newcomer to webautomation with python and would be thankful for
> good suggestions.
>
> I used so far perl with LWP::UserAgent HTTP::Cookies and some module (I
> forgot the name) to handle parsing and filling in Forms.
>
> thanks in advance for any pointers opinions
>
> N




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