Automatizing web browser form filling in Python

Question

Question:

Hi. I am a beginner trying to learn Python, and for one of my first projects I want to write a script that will fill out a survey automatically for me

Answer 1

There are Python libraries and tools for automatizing browser actions. StackOverflow.com is not a place to ask for an recommendation for such a tool and thus moderators will close this question (SO is usually asking a help for particular problem, not for broad help and tutoriing requests). However here are some starting points for you

• Splinter - automate browser actions in Python

• Mechanize - Python library for stateful programmatic web browsing

• Selenium automizing framework Python bindings - using full installed browser

• Headless web browsing listing - includes Python ones

• Scrapy - web content scraping framework in Python

For installing Python packages please refer to official package installation tutorial.