mechanize - Automate interaction with HTTP web servers
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Major features
-----------------
Stateful programmatic web browsing in Python
- The browser class `mechanize.Browser` implements 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 `Referer` HTTP header is added properly (optional).
- Automatic observance of `robots.txt <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html>`_.
- Automatic handling of HTTP-Equiv and Refresh.
Installation
-----------------
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 `mechanize` sub-directory somewhere on your
`PYTHONPATH`.
Documentation
---------------
See https://mechanize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Credits
-----------------
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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