mechanize python click a button
Question
I have a form with <input type="button" name="submit" />
button and would like to be able to click it.
I have tried mech.form.click("submit")
but that gives the following error:
ControlNotFoundError: no control matching kind 'clickable', id 'submit'
mech.submit()
also doesn't work since its type is button and not submit.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Solution
clicking a type="button"
in a pure html form does nothing. For it to do anything, there must be javascript involved.
And mechanize
doesn't run javascript.
So your options are:
- Read the javascript yourself and simulate with
mechanize
what it would be doing - Use
spidermonkey
to run the javascript code
I'd do the first one, since using spidermonkey
seems hard and probably not worth it.
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