Mathias Waack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I need to access some information from a web site which are only accessible > through a form. Thus for each bucket of data you have to fill out the form, > submit it and wait for an answer. Very easy - if you don't have to check > some hundred times. Of course this site requires cookies, it is not > directly accessible by URL and so on. All that nice stuff used to make a > web site more professional;) > > But now the question: how can this be solved by using Python?
urllib2 (in the standard library) for reading the data from the website. BeautifulSoup <URL: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/> for extracting data from the pages. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list