Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. >
Adding ClientForm for automatically handling the forms and ClientCookie/cookielib for automatic cookie handling. Best Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python > <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
