Re: [Tutor] Open a WebPage with Forms Authentication

2010-03-31 Thread Shashwat Anand
may be you can try mechanize ? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:41 AM, GoodPotatoes wrote: > I would like to sign onto a web page, but am having a difficult time > determine what parameters to pass in my sign in. For a simple test, I am > trying to parse text on a "friends" status page on twitter. Thi

[Tutor] Open a WebPage with Forms Authentication

2010-03-31 Thread GoodPotatoes
I would like to sign onto a web page, but am having a difficult time determine what parameters to pass in my sign in. For a simple test, I am trying to parse text on a "friends" status page on twitter. This is not via the API, but the web. import urllib2, urllib, cookielib opener = urllib2.bu