This is: a scripting system for automating Web browsing. Useful for testing Web pages or grabbing data from password-protected sites automatically.
To install this python module I used pip command:
[root@localhost mythcat]# pip install twill
Collecting twill
Downloading twill-1.8.0.tar.gz (176kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 184kB 2.5MB/s
Installing collected packages: twill
Running setup.py install for twill ... done
Successfully installed twill-1.8.0
Let's try some tests:
[mythcat@localhost ~]$ python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Jan 12 2017, 17:59:37)
[GCC 6.3.1 20161221 (Red Hat 6.3.1-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from twill import get_browser
>>> b = get_browser()
>>>
>>> from twill.commands import *
>>> go("http://www.python.org/")
==> at https://www.python.org/
u'https://www.python.org/'
>>> b.showforms()
Form #1
## ## __Name__________________ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
1 q search id-searc ...
To talk to the Web browser directly, call the get_browser function.You can see most of the twill commands by using:
>>> import twill.shell
>>> twill.shell.main()
-= Welcome to twill! =-
current page: https://www.python.org/widgets
>> ?
Undocumented commands:
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add_auth fa info save_html title
add_extra_header find load_cookies setglobal url
agent follow notfind setlocal
back formaction redirect_error show
clear_cookies formclear redirect_output show_cookies
clear_extra_headers formfile reload show_extra_headers
code formvalue reset_browser showforms
config fv reset_error showhistory
debug get_browser reset_output showlinks
echo getinput run sleep
exit getpassword runfile submit
extend_with go save_cookies tidy_ok
current page: https://www.python.org/widgets
>>
Basic is used by setlocal to fill website forms and the go function.Ban can be very good for some tasks.
The twill python module also provides a simple wrapper for mechanizing functionality with the API is still unstable.