accessing a web search engine

Hernan M. Foffani hfoffani at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 1 10:00:24 EST 2001


"Rajarshi Guha" <rxg218 at psu.edu> escribió en el mensaje
news:9rq340$1hfc at r02n01.cac.psu.edu...
> Hi,
>   I'm trying to use Python to send queries to a webpage and analyse the
> results. However the search engine does'nt use cgi scripts - it uses a
> Javascript function. How can I access a JScript function. I realize that
> this is not really a Python question, but since I am using it I thought
I'd
> ask here. I know that I have to use the urllib module but what string do I
> send to the server?

Did you try to access that site with a browser with javascript disabled?
It may default to a standard form/submit page...

-Hernan






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