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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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