Submitting to a web form using python

Question

I have seen questions like this asked many many times but none are helpful

Im trying to submit data to a form on the web ive tried requests, and urllib and none have

Answer 1

Mechanize library from python is also great allowing you to even submit forms. You can use the following code to create a browser object and create requests.

import mechanize,re
br = mechanize.Browser()
br.set_handle_robots(False)   # ignore robots
br.set_handle_refresh(False)  # can sometimes hang without this
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Firefox')]             
br.open( "http://google.com" )
br.select_form( 'f' )
br.form[ 'q' ] = 'foo'
br.submit()
resp = None

for link in br.links():
    siteMatch = re.compile( 'www.foofighters.com' ).search( link.url )

    if siteMatch:
        resp = br.follow_link( link )
        break

content = resp.get_data()
print content