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Automatic Strawpoll voter
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import sys | |
import time | |
import urllib | |
import urllib2 | |
import bs4 | |
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0'} | |
def scrape(id): | |
req = urllib2.Request('http://www.strawpoll.me/%s' % id, headers=headers) | |
content = urllib2.urlopen(req).read() | |
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(content, 'html5lib') | |
sectoken = soup.find('form').find('input', id='field-security-token')['value'] | |
authtoken = soup.find('form').find('input', id='field-authenticity-token')['name'] | |
opts = soup.find('div', id='field-options').find_all('div') | |
optz = [] | |
for i in range(len(opts)): | |
opt = opts[i] | |
name = opt.find('label').get_text() | |
value = opt.find('input')['value'] | |
optz.append({'name': name, 'value': value}) | |
print '%d:' % (i+1), name, '(%s)' % value | |
opt = optz[int(raw_input('Choice: ')) - 1] | |
form_vals={'security-token':sectoken, authtoken:'', 'options':opt['value']} | |
form_vals = urllib.urlencode(form_vals) | |
while True: | |
req = urllib2.Request('http://www.strawpoll.me/%s' % id, data=form_vals, headers=headers) | |
urllib2.urlopen(req) | |
time.sleep(0.01) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
if len(sys.argv[1:]): | |
scrape(sys.argv[1]) | |
else: | |
print 'Usage: python %s [strawpoll_id]' % sys.argv[0] |
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