Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: mechanize
Version: 0.4.7
Summary: Stateful programmatic web browsing.
Home-page: https://github.com/python-mechanize/mechanize
Author: Kovid Goyal
Author-email: no@no.no
License: BSD
Download-URL: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/mechanize/mechanize-0.4.7.tar.gz
Platform: any
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: System Administrators
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Internet
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management :: Link Checking
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Testing
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Testing :: Traffic Generation
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Archiving :: Mirroring
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Networking :: Monitoring
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Systems Administration
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
Provides-Extra: fast
License-File: LICENSE

Stateful programmatic web browsing, after Andy Lester's Perl module
WWW::Mechanize.

mechanize.Browser implements the urllib2.OpenerDirector interface.  Browser
objects have state, including navigation history, HTML form state, cookies,
etc.  The set of features and URL schemes handled by Browser objects is
configurable.  The library also provides an API that is mostly compatible with
urllib2: your urllib2 program will likely still work if you replace "urllib2"
with "mechanize" everywhere.

Features include: ftp:, http: and file: URL schemes, browser history, hyperlink
and HTML form support, HTTP cookies, HTTP-EQUIV and Refresh, Referer [sic]
header, robots.txt, redirections, proxies, and Basic and Digest HTTP
authentication.

Much of the code originally derived from Perl code by Gisle Aas (libwww-perl),
Johnny Lee (MSIE Cookie support) and last but not least Andy Lester
(WWW::Mechanize).  urllib2 was written by Jeremy Hylton.



