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Python web browser automation

Dec 7th, 2007

Does anyone know how easy it is to automate a web browser using python?

If so, can you point me in the direction of any basic examples of screen scraping and html manipulation using python

I work with firefox

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Last edited by LarZ : Dec 7th, 2007 at 11:52 am.

if this were a computer game i'd be googling a patch right now...

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Re: Python web browser automation

Dec 10th, 2007

a few helpful libraries are: urllib, htmllib, urllib2, cookielib

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Re: Python web browser automation

Mar 21st, 2008

I have not seen any code release for automating firefox with python, but I have seen one for the IE browser. Check out PAMIE for Internet Explorer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pamie/

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Re: Python web browser automation

Mar 21st, 2008

Webbrowser is great too.

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import webbrowser as WEB
WEB.open('anyfile.extension')
# are URL's accepted? probably
# or under Linux, you could;
# import os
# os.system('firefox URL')
# and then
# os.system('killall -9 firefox')

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