Making a post request in python for scraping
Question: My goal is to be able to access the data from a website after inputting
information in a field and hitting submit. I'm using Httpfox to grab which
values are needed to "post". I included a screenshot of that below the code.

    
    
    #SECTION 1: import modules
    import requests
    
    #SECTION 2: setup variables
    
    url = 'http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/Depts/assessor/Pages/PropertyRecords.aspx?H=redrock&P=assrrealprop/pcl.aspx'
    
    ses = requests.session()
    
    values = []
    
    values.append({
        '__LASTFOCUS' : '',
        '__EVENTARGUMENT' : '',
        '__EVENTTARGET' : 'Submit1',
        '__VIEWSTATE' : '/wEPDwUJLTcyMjI2NjUwZBgBBR5fX0NvbnRyb2xzUmVxdWlyZVBvc3RCYWNrS2V5X18WAgUKY2hrQ3VycmVudAUKY2hrSGlzdG9yeUfXtwoelaE/eJmc1s9mHzvIqqwk',
        '__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR' : '5889EE07',
        '__EVENTVALIDATION' : '/wEWBQLnuv+BDALRqf+zDQK+zcmQBAK+zeWoCALVo8avDjkJwx8mhBoXL3mYGKBSY5lYBPxY',
        'hdnInstance' : 'pcl',
        'parcel' : '124-32-816-087', #this is what changes
        'age' : 'pcl17',
        'Submit1' : 'Submit'})
    
    #SECTION 3: grab html text       
    r = ses.post(url, data = values)
    r.content() #this either throws an error 'too many values to unpack' or gives me the content of the main page if i play around with the input values a little, not the redirected page which is my problem
    

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Answer: You don't need to embark in a POST request when you can get the same result
with a simple GET

A page inspection of the final page higlights there is an iframe used to show
the actual search result.

You can get the result straight from this URL, by replacing "your-parcel-
number-here" with the desired value (In your example it was `124-32-816-087`).

>
> <http://sandgate.co.clark.nv.us/assrrealprop/ParcelDetail.aspx?hdnParcel=your-
> parcel-number-here>

Looks like no cookie is needed and hotlinking works (I tried that link in
firefox private mode).

