How to click with mechanize in python?

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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.

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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: <response_seek_wrapper at 0x2d693a0 whose wrapped object = <closeable_response at 0x2d86fd0 whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0x02D7DA30>>> — RATHI
– RATHI, Commented Aug 29, 2013 at 21:49
br.submit() should return another webpage but it returning some different thing which i have described in above comment. — RATHI
– RATHI, Commented Aug 29, 2013 at 22:00
That's not an error. Read the response - it's a filelike object. response = br.form.submit() html = response.read() — DivinusVox
– DivinusVox, Commented Aug 29, 2013 at 22:08

DivinusVox · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-29 22:27:24Z

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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, 2013 at 22:27

answered Aug 29, 2013 at 22:15

DivinusVox

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DivinusVox Over a year ago

@MilchePatern Tempted to PEP8 it. ;)

RATHI Over a year ago

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?

DivinusVox Over a year ago

@RATHI Mechanize has no javascript engine. you can often get around javascript by just posting/getting from the url where the javascript would have.

Emil Vikström · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-29 21:42:03Z

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

answered Aug 29, 2013 at 21:42

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