A friend of mine recently asked, "Is there anything in Python that can read forms?
He's got perl code that looks like this:
my $form = HTML::Form->parse($writeFormPage, $res->base()); defined($form) or return "Can't even get wiki edit form at $URL"; if ($form->find_input('savetext')) { $form->value('savetext',$pagetext); } my $req = $form->click('button_save'); my $res = $ua->request($req);
I thought, "cgi module," but realized it's for writing pages, not reading them. Then I thought urllib, but didn't see anything very promising over there, either.
Does anyone know of Python code or a Python module that will help you read out forms, and create responses to them?
-- StefanBehnel
lxml.html has pretty sophisticated HTML form support.
-- LionKimbro 2004-06-03 07:39:12
Look at:
Mechanize: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ (which is based on a Perl module)