How to submit form in Python?

Question

I was trying to submit details through python on a form on the following website.

I tried requests but there is a search box on the site as well(another form).

How do I handle this? Sample data - TIN - 27680809621V

Answer 1

Try selenium or BeautifulSoup libraries

• MooingRawr: How about providing an example in your answer. Right now your 'answer' is more of a comment than an actual answer.

Answer 2

Try using Mechanize, a library that supports interacting with forms, links and others when crawling or scraping data.

Something like this would be enough:

import mechanize
br = mechanize.Browser()
br.open('http://mahavat.gov.in/Tin_Search/Tinsearch.jsp')
br.select_form('f1')
br.form['tin'] = '27680809621V'
br.submit()

Here are some examples from StackOverflow on how to use Mechanize to fill forms:

• Using Mechanize (Python) to fill form
• Submitting Forms with Mechanize (Python)

• MooingRawr: If you are just going to recommend a library and link other answers on this site, why not comment and flag for duplication. Also this feels more of a comment than an answer.
• Prateek Agarwal: I tried mechanize. I had problems with it. import mechanize br = mechanize.Browser() url = 'mahavat.gov.in/Tin_Search/Tinsearch.jsp' br.open(url) br.select_form(name='f1') It gave me the following error - TypeError: parse() got an unexpected keyword argument 'transport_encoding'