Clicking a button automatically in a web browser with python

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Sort of like a bot, i have already checked out some sites such as pyjamas and scrapy, I know how to print data of websites, but still dont know how to interact with buttons. Can somebody help me with some demonstarative code?

Lets say i have a form

<form name="input" action="html_form_action.asp" method="get">
Username: <input type="text" name="user" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

how do i identify the button to be clicked, so that python can click it for me? If anybody knows any sites with demonstarative code, i would be very pleased.

huh? what has this to do with Python? If you want to submit data to some webserver then you have to perform a proper HTTP GET/POST request - this is something completely different then reading HTML and parsing it. Perhaps you should understand first what happens on the client and what on the server - basic HTTP know-how should be expectable if you deal with HTML. Tools like mechanize are way to deal with that. — user2665694
– user2665694, Commented Apr 17, 2011 at 11:34
a HTTP GET/POST request was probably a bad example, if anybody knows KoL mafia, something like this is what i am trying to make. — Bartlomiej Lewandowski
– Bartlomiej Lewandowski, Commented Apr 17, 2011 at 11:39

utdemir · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-17 11:32:03Z

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You can use mechanize for that. It provides an easy way for interacting with websites.

answered Apr 17, 2011 at 11:32

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Paul D. Waite · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-17 11:46:37Z

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If you’re looking to really simulate a browser, you might want to look at Selenium, which allows you to control a real web browser.

If the website you’re looking to interface with uses a lot of JavaScript (e.g. onclick handlers), it can be very handy.

answered Apr 17, 2011 at 11:46

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