[Tutor] entering text on web site

[Benjamin Fishbein]

Thanks. I'm trying to automatically post text to a web page from Python and retrieve the resultant page. It's not just name and password, though; I need to do it over and over again with chunks of info from a list.
The page seems to be using POST.
form method='POST'
is written all throughout the code.
The links you recommended use modules like Client Cookie, mechanize, etc. I guess Python didn't come standard with a module that could do what I wanted...
Which is the best module to get for this?

Ben


On Jun 13, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Walter Prins wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 13 June 2012 13:35, Benjamin Fishbein <bfishbein79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello. I have been teaching myself Python and have been stuck on this problem for a week--I scoured the web for an answer and even asked a couple computer programmer friends.
>> I managed to write a simple program with urllib that downloads the content from web pages; but I want to put text in a text box on the webpage, have it entered into the website, and then get the results. Is there a way to do this with Python?
> 
> Please clarify, are you:
> a) Trying to automatically post some text to a web page from Python
> and then retrieve the resultant page? (for example, username and
> password and retrieve resultant logon page.)
> b) Trying to use Python to present a webpage that a user then puts
> text in a box which the Python program then captures when the user
> submits the page?
> 
> I'm assuming a.) If so, then I should ask, does this page use POST or
> GET style submission?
> 
> In any case, here's a stackeroverflow question regarding using POST
> and cookies etc:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2954381/python-form-post-using-urllib2-also-question-on-saving-using-cookies
> .. with the default Python documentation doing a decent job of explaining GET:
> http://docs.python.org/howto/urllib2.html
> 
> This also seems useful/relevant:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10916745/scraping-data-from-simple-website-change-post-to-get
> 
> Walter
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