Using urllib2 in Python

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I am trying to do the following via python:

From this website: http://www.bmf.com.br/arquivos1/arquivos_ipn.asp?idioma=pt-BR&status=ativo

I would like to check the 4th checkbox and then click on Download image.

That is what I did:

import urllib2
import urllib
url = "http://www.bmf.com.br/arquivos1/arquivos_ipn.asp?idioma=pt-BR&status=ativo"
payload = {"chkArquivoDownload3_ativo":"1"}
data = urllib.urlencode(payload)
request = urllib2.Request(url, data)

print request

response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
contents = response.read()

print contents

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Do we have any suggestions for what? What happens? What do you expect to happen? — OJFord
– OJFord, Commented Sep 23, 2014 at 0:35

lmo · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-23 02:14:50Z

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Selenium is a great project, it lets you control a firefox browser with python. Something like this:

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

browser.get('http://www.bmf.com.br/arquivos1/arquivos_ipn.asp?idioma=pt-BR&status=ativo')

browser.find_element_by_id('chkArquivoDownload3').click()
browser.find_element_by_id('imgSubmeter_ativo').click()

browser.quit()

would probably work.

answered Sep 23, 2014 at 2:14

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user1743173 · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-23 00:49:07Z

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Web browsers are a complex collection of components which interact together. Python does not have a web-browser built in (in particular a DOM or Javascript engine) and it is simply downloading a html file which would normally interact with said DOM and javascript in your browser.

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