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Cisplatin

Reputation: 2998

How to enter a parameter for a HTTP GET request that doesn't have a name?

I'm using the requests module for python, and sending a GET request to a site as follows:

r = requests.get("https://www.youtube.com", params={"search_query":"Hello World"}).text

Which just returns the HTML of the page on YouTube that searches for "Hello World", which is the parameter for a field with the name "search_query".

However, let's say that one parameter I want to input does not have a name on the site, but is still part of the form.

The site I'm talking about has the following code:

<input type="text" id="youtube-url" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhBE" onclick="sALL(this)" autocomplete="off" style="width:466px;">

How would I go about sending a parameter to this specific input, considering it does not have a name?

Thanks

EDIT: The full HTML of the code:

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 610

Answers (1)

Pavel Anossov
Pavel Anossov

Reputation: 62868

This site doesn't do any normal submitting, everything is done via javascript. When you push the button a GET request is sent like this:

"/a/pushItem/?item=" + escape(g("youtube-url").value)
   + "&el=na&bf=" + getBF()
   + "&r="+ (new Date()).getTime();

Then with the result of this, another is sent:

"/a/itemInfo/?video_id=" + video_id + "&ac=www&t=grp&r=" + a.getTime();

So in python you can try this:

import time

videoid = requests.get("http://www.youtube-mp3.org/a/pushItem/",
                 params={
                      "item": "your youtube video url",
                      "el": "na",
                      "bf": "false",
                      "r": int(time.time() * 1000000)   # JS timestamps are in microseconds
                 }).text


info = requests.get("http://www.youtube-mp3.org/a/itemInfo/",
                   params={
                       "video_id": videoid,
                       "ac": "www",
                       "t": "grp",
                       "r": int(time.time() * 1000000)
                   }).text

And then you'll have to parse the info, which isn't even JSON, but more javascript, and do whatever you want with that data.

You might have to deal with CAPTCHAs or conversion progress.

Upvotes: 1

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