Questions tagged [mechanicalsoup]

MechanicalSoup is a Python library for automated web browsing and form handling. It is built on top of the requests and BeautifulSoup libraries.

Install with: pip install mechanicalsoup

Example usage:

import mechanicalsoup

# Connect to duckduckgo
browser = mechanicalsoup.StatefulBrowser()
browser.open("https://duckduckgo.com/")

# Fill-in the search form
browser.select_form('#search_form_homepage')
browser["q"] = "MechanicalSoup"
browser.submit_selected()

# Display the results
for l in browser.get_current_page().select('a.result__a'):
print(l.text, '->', l.attrs['href'])