title: How to write a Python robot that browses
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3075792/where-shall-i-start-in-making-a-scraper-or-a-bot-using-python">Where shall I start in making a scraper or a bot using python?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I know it's obviously possible...
  I was asked to implement some sort of robot that visits a website, logs in, visits a set of links, fills a search form with date inputs to get a XLS file and logs off.
  If done manually this whole ordeal takes almost an hour, so a script/robot would save us a lot of time.</p>
  
  <p>Ideas? Libraries? I guess I'm going to need urllib?<br>
  Or maybe not use Python at all?<br>
  Thanks in advance!</p>
  
  <p>Edit: I searched quite a bit for "python crawler" and didn't come upon Mechanize or Scrapy until right before the comments :/<br>
  I'll look further into Mechanize first. Thanks.</p>