On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:37:19 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a government website which shows public data for banks. We'd > like to pull the data down programmatically but the data is "hidden" > behind .aspx... > > Is there anyway in Python to hook in directly to a browser (firefox or > IE) to do the following... > > 1) Fill the search criteria > 2) Press the "Search" button > 3) Press another button (the CSV button) on the resulting page > 4) Then grab the data out of the notepad file that pops up > > If this is a wild good chase, let me know... (or if there's a better > way besides Python... I may have to explore writing a firefox plug-in > or something)...
Well, Python supports moving the mouse pointer so it's should be quite simple to write such a program. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
