John, "J" == John wrote:
J> I have to write a spyder for a webpage that uses html + javascript. I J> had it written using mechanize but the authors of the webpage now use a J> lot of javascript. Mechanize can no longer do the job. Does anyone J> know how I could automate my spyder to understand javascript? Is there J> a way to control a browser like firefox from python itself? How about J> IE? That way, we do not have to go thru something like mechanize? Up to my knowledge, there no way to test javascript but to fire up a browser. So, you might check Selenium (http://www.openqa.org/selenium/) and its python module. -- Andrey V Khavryuchenko Software Development Company http://www.kds.com.ua/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
