[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > 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)...
There needs no browser to be involved - unless there is AJAX in the game, and even then - after alle, it's all HTTP-requests. Whichfor there are several options to work with - one popular is http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
