mechanize

I am navigating a site using python's mechanize module and having trouble clicking on a javascript link for next page. I did a bit of reading and people suggested I need python-spidermonkey and DOMforms. I managed to get them installed by I am not sure of the syntax to actually click on the link. I can identify the code on the page as: <a href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$MainContent$gvSearchResults','Page$2')">2</a> Does anyone know how to click on it? or if perhaps there's another tool. Thanks I mainly use HtmlUnit under jython for these use cases. Also I published a simple article on the

I'm using Mechanize to facilitate the downloading of some files. At the moment my script uses the following line to actually download the files... agent.get('http://example.com/foo').save_as 'a_file_name' However this downloads the complete file into memory before dumping it to disk. How do you bypass this behavior, and simply download straight to disk? If I need to use something other than WWW:Mechanize then how would I go about using WWW:Mechanize's cookies with it? What you really want is the Mechanize::Download http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/Mechanize/Download.html you can use this way:

I want to submit login to the website Reddit.com, navigate to a particular area of the page, and submit a comment. I don't see what's wrong with this code, but it is not working in that no change is reflected on the Reddit site. import mechanize import cookielib def main(): #Browser br = mechanize.Browser() # Cookie Jar cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar() br.set_cookiejar(cj) # Browser options br.set_handle_equiv(True) br.set_handle_gzip(True) br.set_handle_redirect(True) br.set_handle_referer(True) br.set_handle_robots(False) # Follows refresh 0 but not hangs on refresh > 0 br.set_handle_refresh