Chapter 6. Interacting with Forms
In earlier chapters, we downloaded static web pages that always return the same content. Now, in this chapter, we will interact with web pages that depend on user input and state to return relevant content. This chapter will cover the following topics:
- Sending a
POSTrequest to submit a form - Using cookies to log in to a website
- The high-level Mechanize module for easier form submissions
To interact with these forms, you will need a user account to log in to the website. You can register an account manually at http://example.webscraping.com/user/register. Unfortunately, we can not yet automate the registration form until the next chapter, which deals with CAPTCHA.
Note
Form methods
HTML forms define two methods for ...
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