On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Amal Thomas <amalthomas...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > Ya its kind of user filling out a form and sending request. > Steps are like this. > 1. I need to submit my sequence in webserver ( like filling out a form in > web) > 2. Then I have to give a request for format sequence(available in the > link: http://mfold.rna.albany.edu/?q=mfold/RNA-Folding-Form ) > 3. Then further steps downloading the output.. > > Thanks, > > > So, read the Requests tutorial, and study the POST examples as POST is the http method that is used when filling in a form. First you will need to examine the form to learn the names of the fields you need to provide data for. > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldst...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Amal Thomas <amalthomas...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am new to python3. I am working in computational biology. I need to >>> submit many sequence (one by one) to a http web server ( >>> http://mfold.rna.albany.edu/?q=mfold/RNA-Folding-Form) . After the >>> processing I need to download the output file. There is an offline package >>> for this server but certain features not available in it. The url for each >>> request is not unique. Is there anyway to do this process by a code ie >>> sending the request, downloading etc. Any suggestions or useful material >>> will be of great help. >>> Working on >>> Python 3.3.1,ubuntu 13.04(Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x64) >>> >>> Thanking you, >>> >>> Amal >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >>> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >>> >>> >> Python comes with the urllib module, but there is a third party module >> called Requests (http://requests.readthedocs.org/en/latest/). This will >> let you fill in the form via your program, and also download some document. >> >> Your subject 'screen scraping' is puzzling. It seems what you are asking >> is how to make your program act like a user filling out a form. Or i >> completely misunderstood. >> >> -- >> Joel Goldstick >> http://joelgoldstick.com >> > > > -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com
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