Python robot web client?

Cameron Laird claird at starbase.neosoft.com
Thu Jul 18 18:07:58 EDT 2002


In article <7x65zdtrv9.fsf_-_ at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Paul Rubin  <phr-n2002b at NOSPAMnightsong.com> wrote:
>Are there any Python robot web clients around, sort of like Perl LWP?
>I mean something fancier than urllib, that parses the HTTP headers and
>remembers any cookies.  It would also be great if it parsed the HTML
>enough to find the form fields, links, and so forth.  I guess I can
>implement what I need, but thought I'd ask first if something like
>it is already available.
>
>Thanks.

Paul, you've received several useful suggestions.  More than
any of these others, though, I think you'll find Pycurl <URL:
http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ > addresses your range of re-
quirements "out of the box".
to be co
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