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An alternative to this is RoboBrowse [1] which is also based on requests + BeautifulSoup4 and seems a lot more mature.

[1] http://robobrowser.readthedocs.org/en/latest/readme.html

Note: this fails when you try to install using pip 1.1, the version that comes with Debian wheezy. If you have this problem, it's easy to work around it for your specific virtualenv, without changing the rest of the system:

- mkvirtualenv whatever

- pip install pip --upgrade

- pip install robobrowser

Haha! If I'd known, I would have used that myself.

Still, it proves the idea is a good one!

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