Hi there, Relevant versions: Python 2.5, Vista Home, IE7
I am trying to scrape a website I have browsed manually in the past, and also manually selected my options, and now want python to use my existing cookie from the manual browse when downloading data. Using: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/80443/ I have found the "name" of the relevant cookie, just after reading urllib2 docs, I can't see how to "send" or have my python instance use "MY" existing cookie. Using the following: *** import re import urllib2, cookielib # set things up for cookies opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor()) urllib2.install_opener(opener) reply = urllib2.urlopen('foo.html').read() print reply *** This does return data, just default data, not the data from the options I set up when manually browsing. My sense is that I need "something" in the () part of HTTPCookieProcessor() but I have no idea as to what... the docs say "cookiejar" but the only code examples I have found are to create a cookiejar for the existing Python session, not to use the cookies from my prior manual meanderings. Any help greatly appreciated. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
