mechanize python click a button

I have a form with <input type="button" name="submit" /> button and would like to be able to click it.

I have tried mech.form.click("submit") but that gives the following error:

ControlNotFoundError: no control matching kind 'clickable', id 'submit'

mech.submit() also doesn’t work since its type is button and not submit.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Answers:

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Method 1

clicking a type="button" in a pure html form does nothing. For it to do anything, there must be javascript involved.

And mechanize doesn’t run javascript.

So your options are:

• Read the javascript yourself and simulate with mechanize what it would be doing
• Use spidermonkey to run the javascript code

I’d do the first one, since using spidermonkey seems hard and probably not worth it.

Method 2

Here is an example if the button is in a form:

import re
from mechanize import Browser
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

browser = Browser()
browser.set_handle_robots(False)
browser.open("https://www.ecfrating.org.uk/v2/new/list_players.php")
browser.select_form(nr=0)
text = """Martins"""
browser['search'] = text
response = browser.submit()
response2=response.geturl()
print (response2) #to make sure that you moved to the desired url
browser.open(response2)
browser.select_form(nr=1)
print (browser) #to make sure that you have the right form
text = """A"""
browser['mode'] = [text,]
response = browser.submit()

soup = BeautifulSoup(response, "html.parser")
table = soup.find('table', {'class': ''})
data = soup.select("table")[0]
tab_data = [[item.text for item in row_data.select("th,td")]
            for row_data in data.select("tr")]
print (tab_data)

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