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Extracing data from webpage

Hi,
I am trying to download data from a webpage. I use mechanize python module.
Could someone tell me how to set/pass an agent*like Mozilla or IE that we do in perl's WWW::Mechanize??

Thanks,
Srini
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Sep 11 '08 #1
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On 11 Sep., 11:55, srinivasan srinivas <sri_anna...@yahoo.co.in>
wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to download data from a webpage. I use mechanize python module.
Could someone tell me how to set/pass an agent*like Mozilla or IE that we do in perl's WWW::Mechanize??

Thanks,
Srini
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/doc.html

Greetings, Uwe
Sep 11 '08 #2
On Sep 11, 11:55*am, srinivasan srinivas <sri_anna...@yahoo.co.in>
wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to download data from a webpage. I use mechanize python module.
Could someone tell me how to set/pass an agent*like Mozilla or IE that we do in perl's WWW::Mechanize??

Thanks,
Srini

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If you have to parse a web page, this could be also useful:
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Sep 11 '08 #3

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