Hello, how i can get input from the html forms. To receive such dictionary:
form = [('name' = 'somename', 'type' = 'text', 'value':''},{' name' = 'somename', 'type' = 'submit', 'value': ' submit ').
Sorry for my English.
BeautifulSoup is discontinued. Better not to mention.
OTZ
2010-08-22 10:36:45
`BeautifulSoup` is also much slower than `lxml.html`
Tim McNamara
2010-08-22 22:42:13
+2
A:
Hi Derek, you probably wont be able to retrieve form data from other users on other sites. If you wish to use a script to send data to a form, mechanize is one tool that makes this quite easy.
Tim McNamara
2010-08-22 10:35:09
Thanks for the answer, but forms unfortunately not static and each time different, therefore is necessary the full analysis.In mechanize it will be not absolutely convenient.
Artyom
2010-08-22 10:39:24
In that case, use lxml.html to parse the document, find form and input tags (possibly using xpath queries), and so on.
Ivo van der Wijk
2010-08-22 10:45:05
Derek, surely the forms are being generated using the `<form>` tag. This should be all that you need to get started. If the forms are indeterministic, no script will be able to assist you. If you mean the forms are generated by client-side JavaScript, then browser automation may help.
Tim McNamara
2010-08-22 22:44:41
+1
A:
Yeah mechanize is sweet !
import mechanize
# Browser
br = mechanize.Browser()
br.set_handle_equiv(True)
br.set_handle_gzip(True)
br.set_handle_redirect(True)
br.set_handle_referer(True)
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1)
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')]
# we inspect the all form element in the http://stackoverflow.com
br.open('http://stackoverflow.com')
for form in br.forms():
print form
Gunslinger_
2010-09-21 18:11:29