problem:emulate it in python with mechanize

[Kev Dwyer]

contro opinion wrote:

> you can do it by hand ,
> 1.open
> http://www.flvcd.com/'
> 2.input
> http://v.163.com/movie/2008/10/O/Q/M7F57SUCS_M7F5R3DOQ.html
> 3.click  submit
> you can get
> http://mov.bn.netease.com/movie/2012/1/V/7/S7MKQOBV7.flv
> 
> i want to  emulate it  in python with  mechanize,here is my code ,why i
> can't get  the  right result:
>  http://mov.bn.netease.com/movie/2012/1/V/7/S7MKQOBV7.flv
> 
> 
> 
> import mechanize
> import cookielib
> import lxml.html
> br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
> rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')]
> br = mechanize.Browser()
> br.set_handle_robots(False)
> 
> r = br.open('http://www.flvcd.com/')
> for f in br.forms():
>     print f
> br.select_form(nr=0)
> 
br.form['kw']='http://v.163.com/movie/2008/10/O/Q/M7F57SUCS_M7F5R3DOQ.html'
> print  br.submit().read()
> 
> why??

Hello,

I think the page uses javascript to submit the form, so mechanize may not 
work with it directly.

See 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3798550/python-mechanize-javascript-
submit-button-problem

for a similar problem and suggested workaround.

Cheers,

Kev