I can’t get to successfully install the package ‘mechanize’ on a Raspberry Pi (so, ARM chip) with Debian Bullseye, python 3.9 in a virtualenv. When I look in the virtualenv’s sitepackages folder, indeed the mechanize package only has .dist-info file, but not a mechanize.py file or mechanize package folder. See below. Question: Am I overlooking something? Details (1): Installing mechanize
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python web scraping issues with mechanize
I am trying to scrape web results from the website: https://promedmail.org/promed-posts/ I have followed beutifulsoup. mechanical soup and mechanize so far unable to scrape the search results. The content does not show the search results when typed in US. Any idea on what am I doing wrong here? Answer As you mention bs4 you can mimic the POST request the
Can’t login using mechanize from python. What am I doing wrong?
I’m trying to use mechanize in python to login to this site: https://login.haaretz.co.il/ On the surface, it looks like a 2-phase login process, same as google, but following receipts for google login via mechanize gets me nowhere. After submit()-ing the browser seems to remain on the same page, with a single form containing the single userName control. What am I