Are there any alternatives to Mechanize in Python? [closed]

Answer 1

try zope.browser http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=zope.testbrowser

Answer 2

SeleniumRC with selenium.py is an alternative (and one of the few workable options if the pages you need to scrape have an important, "structural" role for Javascript operations, esp. AJAX-y ones, since Mechanize doesn't execute the Javascript on the pages it's scraping).

Answer 3

scrapelib is another option : https://github.com/sunlightlabs/scrapelib

Answer 4

I've used twill for a lot of my testing needs. It works as a stand-alone language for "web browsing" or as a library from Python. It actually uses Mechanize under the hood, so I'm not sure if it will meet your needs -- are you encountering problems intrinsic to Mechanize, or would you benefit from a high level layer?

Answer 5

I've been successful with Splinter, a solution built on top of Selenium - while providing more pythonic API.

Answer 6

For scraping and form handling you can use lxml.html (it doesn't automate fetching and cookies though).

scrapy is a library specifically for scraping.