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Shaheeb Roshan
Shaheeb Roshan

Reputation: 611

Twill/Mechanize access to html content

Couple of questions regarding Twill and Mechanize:

  1. Is Twill still relevant as a web-automation tool? If yes, then why is not currently maintained? If no, has Mechanize matured further to support Twill-style simple scripting? Or is there another package that has stepped up to fill the gap?

  2. I was able to very quickly setup a couple of test suites in python using Twill, but I'm a little confused on how to access the information that Twill spits out in my python program. That is, I can do showforms() and see the form values neatly listed and I can use fv to update the form values and submit. But how do I access one of those form values as a python var? How can I say something like: someField1Value = fv("1","someField1")

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1541

Answers (2)

mit
mit

Reputation: 11261

This question is old, but ranking high on google.

As of 2014 oficial twill seems quite dead, also the mailing list.

There are forks on github:

https://github.com/zenoss/twill

https://github.com/ctb/twill

Upvotes: 0

hoju
hoju

Reputation: 29452

Twill is a thin shell around the mechanize package. You are right it does not appear to be actively maintained so I would stick with Mechanize.

However Mechanize does not support the simple interface you are after. For that I would recommend Chickenfoot.

Upvotes: 1

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