How to login to a website with python and mechanize

Question

i\'m trying to log in to the website http://www.magickartenmarkt.de and do some analyzing in the member-area (https://www.magickartenmarkt.de/?mainPage=showWants). I saw oth

Answer 1

Why not use a browser instance to facilitate navigation? Mechanize also has the ability to select particular forms (e.g. nr = 0 will select the first form on the page)

browser = mechanize.Browser()
browser.open(YOUR URL)
browser.select_form(nr = 0)
browser.form['username'] = USERNAME
browser.form['password'] = PASSWORD
browser.submit()

Answer 2

Web automation ? Definitely "WEBBOT"

webbot works even for webpages with dynamically changing id and classnames and has more methods and features than selenium.

Here's a snippet :)

from webbot import Browser 
web = Browser()
web.go_to('google.com') 
web.click('Sign in')
web.type('mymail@gmail.com' , into='Email')
web.click('NEXT' , tag='span')
web.type('mypassword' , into='Password' , id='passwordFieldId') # specific selection
web.click('NEXT' , tag='span') # you are logged in ^_^