Hi all, Elliot Temple on the 1 June wrote: > How do I make Python press a button on a webpage? I looked at > urllib, but I only see how to open a URL with that. I searched > google but no luck.
> For example, google has a button <input type=submit value="Google > Search" name=btnG> how would i make a script to press that button? I have a similar target: web automation, which needs not only to press web buttons but also fill up input fields (like in your case the search field of Google). On the suggestion of [EMAIL PROTECTED], I tried twill (http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/twill.html). I think it can be the solution: I already applied it for reading data from an asp file (http://groups.google.it/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/23b50b2c5f2ef377/2e0a593e08d28baf?q=qwweeeit&rnum=2#2e0a593e08d28baf) I try to solve your problem using the interactive mode (but twill can also be called as a module). Set twill in interactive mode: twill-sh - load Google webpage: go www.google.it (I'm Italian!) - show the page with the command 'show' - Get the page forms: showforms ## __Name______ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________ hl hidden (None) it ie hidden (None) ISO-8859-1 q text (None) meta radio all [''] of ['', 'lr=lang_it', 'cr=count ... 1 btnG submit (None) Cerca con Google 2 btnI submit (None) Mi sento fortunato current page: http://www.google.it The input field is q (Type:text), while there are two buttons (Type: submit) and a radio button meta (Type: radio). - fill values: fv 0 q twill (being "twill" the search string") - press the search button: fv 1 btnG "Cerca con Google" submit twill answers with the query to Google: http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=twill&btnG=Cerca+con+Google&meta= - save the search result on a file: save_html /home/qwweeeit/searching_twill.html Here they are the 1st 10 hits of the search! Don't ask me to continue! Perhaps asking to the author of twill (C. Titus Brown)... With such a method you can bypass the Google's restrictions, because you are using the browser (only building automatically the query). And this answers to the right observation of Grant Edwards: > Ah, never mind. That doesn't work. Google somehow detects > you're not sending the query from a browser and bonks you. Bye. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
