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mechanize - Automate interaction with HTTP web servers
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Stateful programmatic web browsing in Python
The browser class
mechanize.Browserimplements the interface of
urllib2.OpenerDirector, so any URL can be opened not just
http.
Easy HTML form filling.
Convenient link parsing and following.
Browser history (
.back()and
.reload()methods).
The
RefererHTTP header is added properly (optional).
Automatic observance of
robots.txt_.
Automatic handling of HTTP-Equiv and Refresh.
To install for normal usage:
.. code-block:: bash
pip3 install mechanize
To install for development:
.. code-block:: bash
git clone https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize.git cd mechanize pip3 install -e .
To install manually, simply add the
mechanizesub-directory somewhere on your
PYTHONPATH.
See https://mechanize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
python-mechanize was the creation of John J. Lee. Maintenance was taken over by Kovid Goyal in 2017.
Much of the code was originally derived from the work of the following people:
Gisle Aas -- [libwww-perl]
Jeremy Hylton (and many others) -- [urllib2]
Andy Lester -- [WWW::Mechanize]
Johnny Lee (coincidentally-named) -- MSIE CookieJar Perl code from which mechanize's support for that is derived.
Also:
Gary Poster and Benji York at Zope Corporation -- contributed significant changes to the HTML forms code
Ronald Tschalar -- provided help with Netscape cookies
Thanks also to the many people who have contributed bug reports and patches.
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