Olivier Favre-Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 31 May 2005 00:52:33 -0700, Michele Simionato wrote: > > > I would like to know what is available for scripting browsers from > > Python. [...] > ClientForm http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/ > > I use it for automation of POSTs of entire image directories to > imagevenue.com/imagehigh.com/etc hosts.
This doesn't actually address what the OP wanted: it's not a browser. > The only drawback I've found are: > - does not support nested forms (since forms are returned in a list) Nested forms?? Good grief. Can you point me at a real life example of such HTML? Can probably fix the parser to work around this. > - does not like ill-formed HTML (Uses HTMLParser as the underlying parser. > you may pass a parser class as parameter (say SGMLParser for greater > acceptance of stupid HTML code) but it's tricky because there is no well > defined parser interface) Titus Brown says he's trying to fix sgmllib (to some extent, at least). Also, you can always feed stuff through mxTidy. I'd like to have a reimplementation of ClientForm on top of something like BeautifulSoup... John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
