[Tutor] entering text on web site

[Timo]

Op 14-06-12 04:44, Benjamin Fishbein schreef:
> 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?
I had successful results with the mechanize package in the past.

Timo

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> Ben
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> On Jun 13, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Walter Prins wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> On 13 June 2012 13:35, Benjamin Fishbein <bfishbein79 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto: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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