MerchantryTidbits

scraping / library

MechanicalSoup

Capability: MechanicalSoup

Use it when

  • automate form login and multi-page HTML flows without a full browser
  • stateful HTTP scraping with cookie jar like a lightweight browser

What it solves

Install

pip install MechanicalSoup

Invoke

import mechanicalsoup; browser = mechanicalsoup.StatefulBrowser(); browser.open(url); browser.select_form('form')

Alternatives

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