hi mike.... you might look at/into selenium, or firewatir....
check the spellings! -peace -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Driscoll Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 1:28 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Remote control of firefox (mozilla) from a python program On Nov 10, 10:23 am, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a requirement to control a firefox web browser from an external > python program. The python program running under linux from a command > shell needs to first find all open firefox web browser windows read > the URL currently displayed in each web browser and if the URL matches > a particular regular expression it needs to get/set form fields > displayed in the web browser. Basically I need something like Windows > COM and Internet Explorer where you can use COM to get/set form > elements in the web page as well as post the web page. Does xpcom > provide this? Is there some other method? Mozilla has an xpcom > interface but I am not sure it is available to a python program > running in a different process as my scenario describes. At some > point I will need this python program to run under Mac OS X but for > now I need something running under Linux. There is some old xpcom bindings, but I don't think they were very helpful. You might be able to use mechanize: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mechanize/0.1.7b Or you might want to check out IronPython's Silverlight/Moonlight API. I don't think that's quite done for Linux, but it's getting there and when it's done, it might work for you... Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
