A Python library for automating interaction with websites. MechanicalSoup automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, and can follow links and submit forms. It doesn't do JavaScript. MechanicalSoup was created by M Hickford, who was a fond user of the Mechanize library. Unfortunately, Mechanize was incompatible with Python 3 until 2019 and its development stalled for several years. MechanicalSoup provides a similar API, built on Python giants Requests (for HTTP sessions) and BeautifulSoup (for document navigation). Since 2017 it is a project actively maintained by a small team.

Features

  • PyPy3 is also supported (and tested against)
  • Full documentation is available
  • Instructions for building, testing and contributing to MechanicalSoup
  • Many examples
  • Python library for automating interaction with websites
  • Customize the way to build a browser

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Categories

Web Scrapers

License

MIT License

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Programming Language

Python

Related Categories

Python Web Scrapers

Registered

2023-04-10
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