Hi, On 13 June 2012 13:35, Benjamin Fishbein <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. I have been teaching myself Python and have been stuck on this problem > for a week--I scoured the web for an answer and even asked a couple computer > programmer friends. > I managed to write a simple program with urllib that downloads the content > from web pages; but I want to put text in a text box on the webpage, have it > entered into the website, and then get the results. Is there a way to do this > with Python?
Please clarify, are you: a) Trying to automatically post some text to a web page from Python and then retrieve the resultant page? (for example, username and password and retrieve resultant logon page.) b) Trying to use Python to present a webpage that a user then puts text in a box which the Python program then captures when the user submits the page? I'm assuming a.) If so, then I should ask, does this page use POST or GET style submission? In any case, here's a stackeroverflow question regarding using POST and cookies etc: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2954381/python-form-post-using-urllib2-also-question-on-saving-using-cookies .. with the default Python documentation doing a decent job of explaining GET: http://docs.python.org/howto/urllib2.html This also seems useful/relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10916745/scraping-data-from-simple-website-change-post-to-get Walter _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
