mechanize python click a button

Question

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.

Answer 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.