> I would like to know how I could automatically fill a
> (search) form on a web page and download the resulting
> html page. More precisely I would like to make a
> program that would automatically fill the "Buscador
> lista 40" (in spanish, sorry) form in the following
> webpage:
> http://www.los40.com/actualidad/listas/lista40.html
> and download the results for several dates
> (dia/mes/año = day/month/year).
> I am not sure this is the right place to ask, but I
> would be very grateful if anybody can help or redirect
> me to another mailing list...
The relevant part of the sites source code is the following:
from the first line you can see that submitting the result will request
the
page "busquedas_b.html" -- so your script has to request this site
directly
with the form parameters given as additional data (method="POST"). which
form parameters to pass can be seen in the name attributes of the
input-tags,
e.g. .
urllib provides the methods urlopen and urlencode to setup the query
string
and fetch the result:
from urllib import urlopen,urlencode
form_data = {
'byDay' : '12' ,
'byMonth' : '07' ,
'byYear' : '2005'
}
html_data = urlopen(
"http://www.los40.com/actualidad/listas/busquedas_b.html";,
urlencode(form_data)
).read()
print html_data
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