Submitting web forms

During web browsing, we submit web forms many times in a day. Now, you would like do that using the Python code.

Getting ready

This recipe uses a third-party Python module called requests. You can install the compatible version of this module by following the instructions from http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/install/. For example, you can use pip to install requests from the command line as follows:

$ pip install requests

How to do it...

Let us submit some fake data to register with https://twitter.com/. Each form submission has two methods: GET and POST. The less sensitive data, for example, search queries, are usually submitted by GET and the more sensitive data is sent via the POST method. Let us try submitting data with both of them.

Listing 4.4 explains the submit web forms, as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook -- Chapter - 4 
# This program requires Python 3.5.2 or any later version 
# It may run on any other version...