John wrote: > I have to write a spyder for a webpage that uses html + javascript. I > had it written using mechanize > but the authors of the webpage now use a lot of javascript. Mechanize > can no longer do the job. > Does anyone know how I could automate my spyder to understand > javascript? Is there a way > to control a browser like firefox from python itself? How about IE? > That way, we do not have > to go thru something like mechanize? > > Thanks in advance for your help/comments, > --j
You want pamie, iec or ishybrowser. Pamie is probably the best choice since it gets patches and updates on a regular basis. http://pamie.sourceforge.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list