[Tutor] screen scraping web-based email

[James Cunningham]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:15:26 -0400, Kent Johnson wrote:
> James Cunningham wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to write a daemon that logs into the text-based web client
>> every so often, scrapes for new email, and uses smtplib to send that
>> email to another email address. But I really don't know how I'd go
>> about logging in and staying logged in without a browser.
>> 
>> Hints are appreciated. Am I wrong-headed about this? Any other options
>> available to me?
> 
> This might be a starting point:
> http://pywebmail.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Otherwise mechanize and Beautiful Soup will give you some high-level 
> tools to get started with:
> http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
> http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
> 
> Kent


pywebmail sounds great, and mechanize is actually just what I was 
looking for. Thanks a lot, especially for the quick response!

Best,
James