Sending username password to a webpage

Chris Rebert clp at rebertia.com
Thu Nov 20 22:58:42 EST 2008


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:52 PM, KDawg44 <KDawg44 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to essentially simulate populating a text box and
> calling a submit button on a webpage?  I want to write an app that
> gets a users information from a website and then uses that to get
> information from another site.  The first site requires a log in.

There's the mechanize library for programmatic web browsing:
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/

Cheers,
Chris
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>
> Thanks for any advice that gets me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin
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