Client side web programming
Hi, Well the trouble is that my orkut scrapbook is flooded. So I reckoned that I'd write some sort of a script to delete the 14800 or so scraps. Now the big problem is that I don't really have too much knowledge about web programming. I have a rough idea about HTTP, HTTPS, cookies etc. but I don't really know the specifics. Question 1: Orkut seems to use a cookie to keep track of who I am. How long will this cookie be valid? Supposing I login using Mozilla and then get hold of this cookie, then use my Python script and send the same cookie whilst send a "POST" request to delete the entry, will orkut be fooled? Question 2: How do I send a specific cookie along with my request? The whole documentation for urllib2 is rather general and seems to assume thorough knowledge of how those protocols work. Question 3: Is there a simpler way? Question 4: Pointers to further information? Thanks, Pramod -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Client side web programming
Michele Simionato wrote: > > Pramod Subramanyan asked aboyt urllib2: > > Look at this article: > > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml > >Michele Simionato Thanks! This is the sort of thing I need. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Client side web programming
Fuzzyman wrote: > And this one for cookie handling: > > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/cookielib.shtml > > All the best, > > Fuzzyman Cool! Thanks a lot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Client side web programming
Luiz Geron wrote: > Maybe this will be useful to you: > http://www.python.org/pypi/mechanoid/0.6.8 Actually I found this thing when I was googling. But there isn't too much documentation, which is why I posted here. Using cookielib and urllib2, I've come up with a workable solution. Its damn slow though - which is probably orkut's fault - deletes about 10-15 scraps a minute - so to get through 14000 scraps its probably gonna take around 23 hours. Anyway, thanks a lot everybody. Pramod -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Client side web programming
Neil Hodgson wrote: > Pramod Subramanyan wrote: > > > Using cookielib and urllib2, I've come up with a workable solution. Its > > damn slow though - which is probably orkut's fault - deletes about > > 10-15 scraps a minute - so to get through 14000 scraps its probably > > gonna take around 23 hours. > > It'll be interesting to see if it completes or whether orkut has a > load limiter that stops you after a certain amount of traffic. > > Neil It seems like the programmers at orkut have screwed up, because I didn't really have 14000 scraps, only around 1000. My requests timed out about 5 times in that span, but its hard to say whether it was a load limiter because orkut is somewhat unreliable anyway. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
