Fill Javascript form

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue May 12 16:15:28 EDT 2009


In article <3f9c74cf-72f4-45e2-8724-3939366d13bf at e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>,
Matteo  <tadwelessar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I have to fill a web form to authenticate and connect to the internet.
>I thought it would have been easy to make a script to do that
>automatically on startup.
>
>Unfortunately, it turned out that the form is written in JavaScript,
>and urllib2 therefore fails to even fetch the form.

Depending on whether you can reverse-engineer the form, you can either
just POST data to the webserver or you need to access a JavaScript
library.  Selenium might be an answer to the latter problem; you could
also look into using WebKit.
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