I have just started to look into Python.
Site: http://toolserver.org/~diberri/cgi-bin/html2wiki/index.cgi
Is it possible for a bot to put data in the top box, maybe tick a box or something, and click the button at the bottom "convert"?
Oh and also, under the Options header, there is a box where you can choose various options. How exactly do you get the bot to choose one of them?
Thanks
Of course you can but you will not input HTML code with your bot. If you look at the source code for the page you will see:
<form method="post" action="index.cgi">
<fieldset style="display:none">
<input type="hidden" name="m" value="convert" />
</fieldset>
...
It does say that the form uses the method post to this uri: http://toolserver.org/~diberri/cgi-bin/html2wiki/index.cgi
So now you can look at urllib2, urllib2 which is the python lib for http requests. And create your post request with the parameter you want.
E.g:
params = {
'dialect' : googlecode,
'uri' : myuri
}
You will need a header, telling the server who is doing the request:
E.g:
headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"}
Something like this:
u = urllib2.urlopen(' http://toolserver.org/~diberri/cgi-bin/html2wiki/index.cgi', params)
h.request('POST', ' http://toolserver.org/~diberri/cgi-bin/html2wiki/index.cgi', params, headers)
