Jetus wrote:
I am able to download this page (enclosed code), but I then want to download a pdf file that I can view in a regular browser by clicking on the "view" link. I don't know how to automate this next part of my script. It seems like it uses Javascript. The line in the page source says href="javascript:openimagewin('JCCOGetImage.jsp? refnum=DN2007036179');" tabindex=-1>So, in summary, when I download this page, for each record, I would like to initiate the "view" link. Can anyone point me in the right direction? When the "view" link is clicked on in IE or Firefox, it returns a pdf file, so I should be able to download it with urllib.urlretrieve('pdffile, 'c:\temp\pdffile') Here is the following code I have been using ---------------------------------------------------------------- import urllib, urllib2 params = [ ('booktype', 'L'), ('book', '930'), ('page', ''), ('hidPageName', 'S3Search'), ('DoItButton', 'Search'),] data = urllib.urlencode(params) f = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.landrecords.jcc.ky.gov/records/ S3DataLKUP.jsp", data) s = f.read() f.close() open('jcolib.html','w').write(s)
You may want to take a look at mechanize, I'm having pretty good luck with using it to do the types of things you describe.
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
