mechanize

I am attempting to have mechanize select a form from a page, but the form in question has no "name" attribute in the html. What should I do? when I try to use br.select_form(name = "") I get errors that no form is declared with that name, and the function requires a name input. There is only one form on the page, is there some other way I can select that form? YOU Try: br.select_form(nr=0) to select the first form In Mechanize source , def select_form(self, name=None, predicate=None, <b>nr=None</b>): """ ... nr, if supplied, is the sequence number of the form (where 0 is the first). """ If you

I want to click a button with python, the info for the form is automatically filled by the webpage. the HTML code for sending a request to the button is: INPUT type="submit" value="Place a Bid"> How would I go about doing this? Is it possible to click the button with just urllib or urllib2? Or will I need to use something like mechanize or twill? Use the form target and send any input as post data like this: <form target="http://mysite.com/blah.php" method="GET"> ...... ...... ...... <input type="text" name="in1" value="abc"> <INPUT type="submit" value="Place a Bid"> </form> Python: # parse

I'm trying to use the Ruby version of Mechanize to extract my employer's tickets from a ticket management system that we're moving away from that does not supply an API. Problem is, it seems Mechanize isn't keeping the cookies between the post call and the get call shown below: require 'rubygems' require 'nokogiri' require 'mechanize' @agent = Mechanize.new page = @agent.post('http://<url>.com/user_session', { 'authenticity_token' => '<token>', 'user_session[login]' => '<login>', 'user_session[password]' => '<password>', 'user_session[remember_me]' => '0', 'commit' => 'Login' }) page = @agent

Here is a related question but I could not figure out how to apply the answer to mechanize/urllib2: how to force python httplib library to use only A requests Basically, given this simple code: #!/usr/bin/python import urllib2 print urllib2.urlopen('http://python.org/').read(100) This results in wireshark saying the following: 0.000000 10.102.0.79 -> 8.8.8.8 DNS Standard query A python.org 0.000023 10.102.0.79 -> 8.8.8.8 DNS Standard query AAAA python.org 0.005369 8.8.8.8 -> 10.102.0.79 DNS Standard query response A 82.94.164.162 5.004494 10.102.0.79 -> 8.8.8.8 DNS Standard query A python.org

Is there a way to get around the following? httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: request disallowed by robots.txt Is the only way around this to contact the site-owner (barnesandnoble.com).. i'm building a site that would bring them more sales, not sure why they would deny access at a certain depth. I'm using mechanize and BeautifulSoup on Python2.6. hoping for a work-around You can try lying about your user agent (e.g., by trying to make believe you're a human being and not a robot) if you want to get in possible legal trouble with Barnes & Noble. Why not instead get in touch with their

I'm trying to log into a website using Python and Mechanize, however, I'm running into trouble when trying to get the POST data to behave as I want. Essentially I want to replicate this using mechanize and Python: wget --quiet --save-cookies cookiejar --keep-session-cookies --post-data "action=login&login_nick=USERNAME&login_pwd=PASSWORD" -O outfile.htm http://domain.com/index.php The form looks like this: <login POST http://domain.com/index.php application/x-www-form-urlencoded <TextControl(login_nick=USERNAME)> <PasswordControl(login_pwd=PASSWORD)> <CheckboxControl(login_auto=[1])>

I'm trying to connect to the server https://www.xpiron.com/schedule in a ruby script. However, when I try connecting: require 'open-uri' doc = open('https://www.xpiron.com/schedule') I get the following error message: OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv2/v3 read server hello A: sslv3 alert unexpected message from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:678:in `connect' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:678:in `block in connect' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:44:in `timeout' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:87:in `timeout' from /usr/local