Automate form filling in a Python browser

Question

Question:

Hey. I'm starting to learn Python, and for one of my first projects, I want to write a script that will automatically fill out a survey for me . I am familiar with coding and I have most of the code written to solve this problem. That I am struggling to write a method that will hit button # 1 in question # 1 or press any given button. One way to understand that I can do this is by writing a script to click the tab → up → down → tab → up → down in the order needed to answer all the questions.

Here's an image of what the survey looks like (CSS was disabled for clarity). http://i.imgur.com/Tn94KFA.jpg

What is one way to write a method for pressing a radio button?

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[ Disclaimer ]: I checked the following questions, but it was useless to me in my current situation:

• fill out a web form that uses javascript with python (the question was very strange and there were Javascript forums that I don’t understand how important this is / I didn’t understand and no one answered the question).
• Script to take a web survey for me (the answers were only about Java, however something like this tool called HtmlUnit seems cool if Python has a comparable library).
• How to fill out form data on a website (question regarding Java).

Answer 1

There are Python libraries and tools for automating browser actions. StackOverflow.com is not a place to request recommendations for such a tool, and thus moderators close this question (SO usually requests help for a specific problem, and not for widespread help and training requests). However, here are a few starting points for you.

• Splinter - automates browser actions in Python

• Mechanism - Python library for viewing stateful programmatic web pages

• Selenium automizing framework Python bindings - using the full installed browser

• List of Headless Web Browsers - Includes Python

• Scrapy - Python web content cleanup environment

To install Python packages, see the official installation tutorial .