python, options to parse a javascript web app
<p>Gents,
  Have to write a python app to communicate and fetch some data from a password protected, javascript enabled web app.</p>

<p>The webapp unfortunately requires javascript to run, and refuses to work if javascript is disabled.  Therefore, 'urllib2' and 'requests' dont work when trying to fetch data.</p>

<p>What are my options at this point?  If I grabbed HTTP traffic via some tool such as firebug... and tried re-playing this traffic via some python method... would this work?  All I need for the script to do is:</p>

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<li>Login into website</li>
<li>Change a dropdown item</li>
<li><p>Grab a single line of text and logout</p>

<p>Thanks guys! </p></li>
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