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Emulate a browser using mechanize
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| import mechanize | |
| import cookielib | |
| # Browser | |
| br = mechanize.Browser() | |
| # Cookie Jar | |
| cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar() | |
| br.set_cookiejar(cj) | |
| # Browser options | |
| br.set_handle_equiv(True) | |
| br.set_handle_gzip(True) | |
| br.set_handle_redirect(True) | |
| br.set_handle_referer(True) | |
| br.set_handle_robots(False) | |
| # Follows refresh 0 but not hangs on refresh > 0 | |
| br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1) | |
| # Want debugging messages? | |
| #br.set_debug_http(True) | |
| #br.set_debug_redirects(True) | |
| #br.set_debug_responses(True) | |
| # User-Agent (this is cheating, ok?) | |
| br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')] |
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