Hello. This problem has got me stumped, and I've been trying to figure it out for more than a month. This program checks to see if a college buyback site is buying back particular books. I'm using mac OSX Here's the code.
import urllib,urllib2 base_url="http://textbooks.com"; action="/BuyBack-Search.php?CSID=AQ2ZJKUWKZJBSD2T2DDMKMKB" url=base_url+action name="bb_isbns" isbns="""0891917608 0307387895 0195070658 0137806922 074324754X\ 067149399x 0446556246 031604993X 0070322538""" data={name:isbns} encoded_data=urllib.urlencode(data) text=urllib2.urlopen(url,encoded_data).read() file_name="textbooks_trial.txt" file=open(file_name,"w") file.write(text) file.close() print "finished running program" print "check file 'textbooks_trial.txt'" When I go to the website(without using Python) and I paste the text (isbns) into the text box then enter it, it comes back with the error: Oops... there may be a mistake here. Sorry, your search could not be completed at this time. Please try again. (Error: BB-09-00-05) But the text I entered is still in the text entry box. When I click on the orange button ("Sell your Textbooks") a second time, it goes through. The problem is that when I try to do this through Python, it returns the code with the error, and there's no orange button to click. I tried submitting it again, hoping the second time would work, using the following code: import urllib,urllib2 text="there may be a mistake here" base_url="http://textbooks.com"; action="/BuyBack-Search.php?CSID=AQ2ZJKUWKZJBSD2T2DDMKMKB" url=base_url+action name="bb_isbns" isbns="""0891917608 0307387895 0195070658 0137806922 074324754X\ 067149399x 0446556246 031604993X 0070322538""" data={name:isbns} encoded_data=urllib.urlencode(data) while "there may be a mistake here" in text: text=urllib2.urlopen(url,encoded_data).read() file_name="textbooks_trial.txt" file=open(file_name,"w") file.write(text) file.close() print "tried doing the program" print "finished running program" print "check file 'textbooks_trial.txt'" The result is an endless loop, where it prints out: "tried running the program" If anyone can figure out what I need to do, I'd be extremely grateful. Thanks, Ben
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