ANNOUNCING twill v0.9.
twill is a simple language for browsing the Web. It's designed for
automated testing of Web sites, but it can be used to interact with
Web sites in a variety of ways. In particular, twill supports form
submission, cookies, redirects, and HTTP authentication.
This release of twill is officially "Pretty Dang Stable".
A twill script to use the "I'm feeling lucky" button on Google looks
like this:
setlocal query "twill Python"
go http://www.google.com/
fv 1 q $query
submit btnI # use the "I'm feeling lucky" button
show
(Note that using this script abuses Google's Terms of Service. So don't.)
You can install the latest release of twill with easy_install,
easy_install twill
or download this release at
http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.9.tar.gz
Documentation is included in the .tar.gz and is also online at
http://twill.idyll.org/
Miscellaneous details:
twill is implemented in Python and uses pyparsing and mechanize. In
addition to the existing simple command language, twill can easily be
extended with Python. twill also provides a fairly simple and
well-documented wrapper around mechanize.
Note that twill does not understand JavaScript.
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Significant changes with 0.9:
- many small bugs were fixed, of course!
- patched subprocess pipe problem (Chris Abraham). This fixes problems
with long-running twill processes.
- twill now "plays nice" with other versions of mechanize and ClientForm
(good for including it in distributions).
- Corrected license information => MIT in all files.
- new 'info' command gives human-readable page summary.
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