Questions tagged [mechanize]

Mechanize was initially created for Perl to automate web browsing, but now there are also Python and Ruby versions available.

Utilize the power of mechanize to access your Megaupload account securely

I am working on a code to log into megaupload. I'm stuck on how to verify that the login was successful. Even though I print out the current URL at the end of the code, all it returns is www.megaupload.com when I run the script. import mechanize import ...

Can Python mechanize navigate through links based on URLs and detect the value of the nr parameter?

Apologies for having to pose such a question, but I am finding that the documentation for python's mechanize is quite lacking. Despite my efforts, I cannot seem to figure this out. The only example I could locate for following a link is as follows: respon ...

What is the best way to create a Python program that automates clicking a specific link?

My program is designed to take user input and search a specific webpage. Once the desired link is located, I want it to navigate to that page and download the file available there. For example: The webpage: The search term: "1AW0" After performing a se ...

Processing information from Text (.prn) documents

Currently, I am faced with the challenge of efficiently managing data that I have obtained from scraping a website. The data is stored in a Text (.prn) file, which I find more suitable for my needs compared to an Adobe Acrobat file. However, when I import ...

Exploring websites with Python's mechanize library by utilizing __doPostBack functions for

Is it possible to navigate a table on a web page using mechanize if the table uses __doPostBack functions? Here is my code snippet: import mechanize br = mechanize.Browser() br.set_handle_robots(False) br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U ...

Utilizing Python to manipulate the 'select' tag in HTML

Currently, I am attempting to retrieve events from an HTML page located at In my efforts to choose different areas using python script, I encountered a challenge with the following snippet of HTML code: <select data-ng-options="key as value.name for ( ...