mechanize

How many user agents are there in Mechanize? Is there a handy list of all the user agent options anywhere? Adrian Yes. Look at https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize/blob/master/lib/mechanize.rb#L115 : AGENT_ALIASES = { 'Windows IE 6' => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)', 'Windows IE 7' => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)', 'Windows Mozilla' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6', 'Mac Safari' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; de-at)

I have a mechanize script written in python that fills out a web form and is supposed to click on the 'create' button. But there's a problem, the form has two buttons. One for 'add attached file' and one for 'create'. Both are of type 'submit', and the attach button is the first one listed. So when I select the forum and do br.submit(), it clicks on the 'attach' button instead of 'create'. Extensive Googling has yielded nothing useful for selecting a specific button in a form. Does anyone know of any methods for skipping over the first 'submit' button and clicking the second? I tried using the

I wrote a small program that uses Mechanize to traverse a site. I want to write tests for it, but don't want it to actually go log onto the site every time I run the tests. I would like to mock the internet, so that when it goes to some site, it simply returns the stored results. Here is a small example, pretend my code's purpose was to pull links off of the google homepage, so I write a test to ensure the first link my code finds has the text "Images". I might write something like this: require 'rubygems' require 'mechanize' require 'test/unit' def my_code_to_find_links google = WWW:

Ok so I need to download some web pages using Python and did a quick investigation of my options. Included with Python: urllib - seems to me that I should use urllib2 instead. urllib has no cookie support, HTTP/FTP/local files only (no SSL) urllib2 - complete HTTP/FTP client, supports most needed things like cookies, does not support all HTTP verbs (only GET and POST, no TRACE, etc.) Full featured: mechanize - can use/save Firefox/IE cookies, take actions like follow second link, actively maintained (0.2.5 released in March 2011) PycURL - supports everything curl does (FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS,

I am building a script using Mechanize to scrape data from a website. The script is supposed to click on the "Read biography" link and then scrape the biography of the member on the next page. Here is the script in the Rake file: require 'mechanize' require 'date' require 'json' task :testing2 do agent = Mechanize.new page = agent.get("https://www.congress.gov/members") page_links = page.links_with(href: %r{.*/member/\w+}) member_links = page_links[0...2] members = member_links.map do |link| member = link.click name = member.search('title').text.split('|')[0] institution = member.search('td~

So I have hit a bit of a snag. I am trying to automate a test case where I need to pass multiple files to an input node and I cannot figure out how to do so. I can use either Mechanize or Watir, but have found very little information on a topic that seems relatively major in automation. In the snippets below, I'm using Watir with Ruby. The main issue I'm having is that it seems when multiple files are selected, the input node is no longer visible. The input node does accept multiple files, and passing in a single path does result in a successful upload, like so. path1 = "/path/to/file.json"