Emulate simple javascript (location.href=) with Mechanize for Python

Question

short: How to execute/simulate javascript redirection

location.href="http://www.site2.com/";

with python Mechanize?

I've made a python script with mechanize module that looks for a link in a page and follows it.

The problem is on a particular site that when I do

br.follow_link("http://www.address1.com")

he redirects me to this simple page:

<script language="JavaScript">{                                                                                         
    location.href="http://www.site2.com/";                                                                                           
    self.focus();                                                                                                                   
    }</script>

Now, if I do:

br = mechanize.Browser(factory=mechanize.RobustFactory())

... #other code

br.follow_link("http://www.address1.com") 
for link in br.links():   
br.follow_link(link)
print link

it doesn't prints anything, that means that there is no link in that page.

But if I manually parse the page and I execute:

br.open("http://www.site2.com")

Site2 doesn't recognizes that I'm coming from "www.address1.com" and the script does not work as I would like!

Sorry if it's just a newbie question and thank you in advance!

that means that there isn't such link in that page. No it doesn't, it means that link is a string object. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Oct 7, 2012 at 16:28

Gilles Quénot · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-07 23:19:12Z

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Try adding

br.set_handle_referer(True)

after the constructor call.

I recommend you these options :

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)

answered Oct 7, 2012 at 23:19

Gilles Quénot

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