How can I Fill in web form and post back

[Rigga]

Joe Francia wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:05:35 GMT, Rigga <rigga at hasnomail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Joe Francia wrote:
>>
>>> Rigga wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for the best way to use Python to get a web page, look for
>>>> some particular fields on a form, fill in the fields and submit the
>>>> form
>>>> but I have no idea where to start - any pointers appreciated
>>>>
>>>> many thanks
>>>>
>>>> Rigga
>>>
>>> Here's a pretty good resource:
>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=python+fill+web+forms
>>>
>> Thanks but I already checked there and didnt come up with much
> 
> Really?  The second link is for ClientForm, the description of which
> reads:
> 
> "ClientForm is a Python module for handling HTML forms on the client side,
> useful for parsing HTML forms, filling them in and returning the completed
> forms to the server."
> 
> That seems to exactly fulfil your requirements.  Are you sure you really
> looked?
> 
Yep definately looked, but overlooked that, wasnt really looking for a
premade routine to do it all but I can learn from that! thanks for pointing
it out, looks like what I need 

Thanks