Are there any alternatives to Mechanize in Python?

Question

Could someone point me to some?

Answer 1

SeleniumRC with selenium.py is an alternative (and one of the few workable options if the pages you need to scrape have an important, "structural" role for Javascript operations, esp. AJAX-y ones, since Mechanize doesn't execute the Javascript on the pages it's scraping).

Answer 2

For scraping and form handling you can use lxml.html (it doesn't automate fetching and cookies though).

scrapy is a library specifically for scraping.

Answer 3

I've used twill for a lot of my testing needs. It works as a stand-alone language for "web browsing" or as a library from Python. It actually uses Mechanize under the hood, so I'm not sure if it will meet your needs -- are you encountering problems intrinsic to Mechanize, or would you benefit from a high level layer?

Answer 4

try zope.browser http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=zope.testbrowser