Re: writing a web client
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Re: writing a web client

From: Fuzzyman <fuzzyman@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jul 29 2005 - 14:27:28 CEST




Ajar wrote:


> I want to write a program which will automatically login to my ISPs


> website, retrieve data and do some processing. Can this be done? Can


> you point me to any example python programs which do similar things?


>


> Regards,


> Ajar



Very easily. Have a look at my article on the ``urllib2`` module.



http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml#http



You may need to use ClientCookie/cookielib to handle cookies and may


have to cope with BASIC authentication. There are also articles about


both of these as well.



If you want to handle filling in forms programattically then the module


ClientForm is useful (allegedly).



Best Regards,



Fuzzyman


http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python


Received on Thu Sep 29 17:13:54 2005