How to click with mechanize in python?

Question

i have a form which is used for authentication. but in this form there are no submit button but it has used an <input> as a button . now i am confused how to click this type of button with MECHANIZE.

page details

till now i had done this:

import urllib
import re
import mechanize
from base64 import b64encode

and can this be done in Java script?

br = mechanize.Browser()


response = br.open("http://xyz.com");
#print response.code
#print response.geturl()

br.select_form("login")
br.form['j_username'] = 'user'
br.form['j_password'] = 'pass'

there is no method of br.form.sumbit() but after selecting the form we can submit the form by br.form() but it is giving this error: >> — RATHI, Aug 29 '13 at 21:49
Sorry, I meant `br.submit`. See [here](http://stackoverflow.com/q/3956280/198633) and [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/4727364/198633) — inspectorG4dget, Aug 29 '13 at 21:52
br.submit() should return another webpage but it returning some different thing which i have described in above comment. — RATHI, Aug 29 '13 at 22:00
That's not an error. Read the response - it's a filelike object. response = br.form.submit() html = response.read() — DivinusVox, Aug 29 '13 at 22:08
I'll make an answer so people can find it if they have the same problem. — DivinusVox, Aug 29 '13 at 22:15

DivinusVox · Answer 1 · 2013-08-29T22:27:24.123

2

That's not an error. Read the response - it's a filelike object.

br.select_form("login")
br.form['j_username'] = 'xyz'
br.form['j_password'] = 'pass'
pag2 = br.submit()
html = pag2.read()
print html

edited Aug 29 '13 at 22:27

answered Aug 29 '13 at 22:15

DivinusVox

1,133
2
12
27

@MilchePatern Tempted to PEP8 it. ;) – DivinusVox Aug 29 '13 at 22:29
the page that is coming after submitting is the same page with error.. onclicking the button some javescript code runs.. is mechanize support the javascript in it? – RATHI Aug 30 '13 at 11:47
@RATHI Mechanize has no javascript engine. you can often get around javascript by just posting/getting from the url where the javascript would have. – DivinusVox Aug 30 '13 at 14:31

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 29 '13 at 21:42

1

This is a submit button. A submit button in HTML is by definition an <input> element of type submit.

answered Aug 29 '13 at 21:42

Emil Vikström

90,431
16
141
175

How to click with mechanize in python?

2 Answers2