[Tutor] Using Python to access .txt files stored behind a firewall as .exe files

2017-05-01 Thread Ian Monat
I've got a Python project that I'd love some help on from a Python developer who is well versed at web scraping or requests. I work for a supplier, and we use a distributor to sell our products to retailers. The distributor has a reporting website that requires a login. >From that home / login pag

Re: [Tutor] Using Python to access .txt files stored behind a firewall as .exe files

2017-05-01 Thread Ian Monat
access to the dashboard through Sharepoint. So, I'm trying to automate the input to the dashboard so the team is always updated, without taking any of my time. Thanks for your time and thoughts -Ian On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 01/05/17 18:20, Ian Mon

Re: [Tutor] Using Python to access .txt files stored behind a firewall as .exe files

2017-05-01 Thread Ian Monat
ote: > On 05/01/2017 03:44 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > > On 01/05/17 18:20, Ian Monat wrote: > >> ... I've written a script using the requests module but I > >> think a web scraper like Scrapy, Beautiful Soup or Selinium may be > >> required. > >

Re: [Tutor] Using Python to access .txt files stored behind a firewall as .exe files

2017-05-02 Thread Ian Monat
7 at 9:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 10:20:42AM -0700, Ian Monat wrote: > [...] > > Then you have you run the .exe which produces a zipped file, and inside > the > > zipped file, is the .txt, which what I really want. There's no way the > &