downloading a link with javascript in it..

[Larry Bates]

Jetus wrote:
> I am able to download this page (enclosed code), but I then want to
> download a pdf file that I can view in a regular browser by clicking
> on the "view" link. I don't know how to automate this next part of my
> script. It seems like it uses Javascript.
> The line in the page source says
> href="javascript:openimagewin('JCCOGetImage.jsp?
> refnum=DN2007036179');" tabindex=-1>
> 
> So, in summary, when I download this page, for each record, I would
> like to initiate the "view" link.
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> When the "view" link is clicked on in IE or Firefox, it returns a pdf
> file, so I should be able to download it with
> urllib.urlretrieve('pdffile, 'c:\temp\pdffile')
> 
> Here is the following code I have been using
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>     import urllib, urllib2
> 
>     params = [
>                 ('booktype', 'L'),
>                 ('book', '930'),
>                 ('page', ''),
>                 ('hidPageName', 'S3Search'),
>                 ('DoItButton', 'Search'),]
> 
>     data = urllib.urlencode(params)
> 
>     f = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.landrecords.jcc.ky.gov/records/
> S3DataLKUP.jsp", data)
> 
>     s = f.read()
>     f.close()
>     open('jcolib.html','w').write(s)
> 

You may want to take a look at mechanize, I'm having pretty good luck with using 
it to do the types of things you describe.


http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/

-Larry