Using Python to sign into website, fill in a form, then sign out

Question

As part of my quest to become better at Python I am now attempting to sign in to a website I frequent, send myself a private message, and then sign out. So far, I\'ve managed to

Answer 1

You can use mechanize to work easily with this. This will ease your work of submitting the form. Don't forget to check with the parameters like name, title, message by seeing the source code of the html form.

import mechanize
br = mechanize.Browser()
br.open("http://mywebsite.com/messages.php?action=send")
br.select_form(nr=0)
br.form['name'] = 'Enter your Name'
br.form['title'] = 'Enter your Title'
br.form['message'] = 'Enter your message'
req = br.submit()