KB wrote: > Hi there, > > Relevant versions: Python 2.5, Vista Home, IE7 > > I am trying to scrape a website I have browsed manually in the past, > and also manually selected my options, and now want python to use my > existing cookie from the manual browse when downloading data. > > Using: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/80443/ I have found the > "name" of the relevant cookie, just after reading urllib2 docs, I > can't see how to "send" or have my python instance use "MY" existing > cookie. > > Using the following: > > *** > import re > import urllib2, cookielib > > # set things up for cookies > > opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor()) > urllib2.install_opener(opener) > > reply = urllib2.urlopen('foo.html').read() > > print reply > > *** > > This does return data, just default data, not the data from the > options I set up when manually browsing. > > My sense is that I need "something" in the () part of > HTTPCookieProcessor() but I have no idea as to what... the docs say > "cookiejar" but the only code examples I have found are to create a > cookiejar for the existing Python session, not to use the cookies from > my prior manual meanderings.
Because this is a completely different beast. You need to find out if and how to access IE-cookies from python - I guess some win32-road is to be walked down for that. Once you get a hold on them, you can build up whatever cookiejar urllib2 needs. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
