[Tutor] Web scrapping

2013-12-12 Thread Amal Thomas
Hi, I am new to python3. I am working in computational biology. I need to submit many sequence (one by one) to a http web server ( http://mfold.rna.albany.edu/?q=mfold/RNA-Folding-Form) . After the processing I need to download the output file. There is an offline package for this server but

Re: [Tutor] Web scrapping

2013-12-12 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Amal Thomas amalthomas...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I am new to python3. I am working in computational biology. I need to submit many sequence (one by one) to a http web server ( http://mfold.rna.albany.edu/?q=mfold/RNA-Folding-Form) . After the processing I

Re: [Tutor] Web scrapping

2013-12-12 Thread Amal Thomas
Hi, Ya its kind of user filling out a form and sending request. Steps are like this. 1. I need to submit my sequence in webserver ( like filling out a form in web) 2. Then I have to give a request for format sequence(available in the link:

Re: [Tutor] Web scrapping

2013-12-12 Thread Alan Gauld
On 12/12/13 18:49, Joel Goldstick wrote: Your subject 'screen scraping' is puzzling. It seems what you are asking is how to make your program act like a user filling out a form. Or i completely misunderstood. That's right. Screen scraping is a fairly standard corporate term for an

Re: [Tutor] Web scrapping

2013-12-12 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Amal Thomas amalthomas...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Ya its kind of user filling out a form and sending request. Steps are like this. 1. I need to submit my sequence in webserver ( like filling out a form in web) 2. Then I have to give a request for format

Re: [Tutor] Web scrapping

2013-12-12 Thread Amal Thomas
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Joel Goldstick joel.goldst...@gmail.comwrote: So, read the Requests tutorial, and study the POST examples as POST is the http method that is used when filling in a form. First you will need to examine the form to learn the names of the fields you need to