can't access forms in website through python mechanize

Question

I am tring to access the forms in a particular website, here is the HTML Code of the form.

 <form name="calendarForm" method="post" action="/ibook/loginSelection.do"><div><input name="org.apache.struts.taglib.html.TOKEN" value="489be5fa2613d2f762b6389c3dd5ea3f" type="hidden"></div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr><td>Please select one of the following services: </td></tr><tr><td> <select name="apptDetails.apptType" onchange="javascript:document.forms[0].submit()" class="txtFill_singleLine"><option value="CS">--Citizen--</option> <option value="CSCA">Citizenship Application Interview</option> <option value="CSCR">Citizenship Registration</option> <option value="CSIC">Collection of Identity Card</option> <option value="CSPC">Collection of Passport</option> <option value="CSXX"></option> <option value="PR">--Permanent Resident--</option> <option value="PRAP">Apply for PR</option> <option value="PRCF">Completion of Formalities for Successful Applicants</option> <option value="PRAR">Apply for REP (Renewal) / CI</option> <option value="PRIC">Collection of IC (New SPR)</option> <option value="PRNN">Collection of IC (SPR)</option> <option value="PRTR">Apply for REP (Transfer)</option> <option value="CSXX"></option> <option value="VS">--Visitor--</option> <option value="VSEI">Application for e-IACS</option> <option value="VSLA">Apply for Long Term Visit Pass</option> <option value="VSLT">Completion of Long Term Visit Pass Formalities</option> <option value="VSSP">Completion of Student's Pass Formalities</option> <option value="VSST">Report to VSC Appointment</option> <option value="VSVP">Collection of Long Term Pass Card</option></select> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </form> 

however my code cannot access the form.

i get the following error

br.select_form(name="calendarForm")
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line 524, in      select_form
raise FormNotFoundError("no form matching "+description)
FormNotFoundError: no form matching name 'calendarForm'

Answer 1

here is my code

 import cookielib import urllib2 import mechanize # Browser br = mechanize.Browser() # Enable cookie support for urllib2 cookiejar = cookielib.LWPCookieJar() br.set_cookiejar( cookiejar ) # Broser options br.set_handle_equiv( True ) br.set_handle_gzip( True ) br.set_handle_redirect( True ) br.set_handle_referer( True ) br.set_handle_robots( False ) # ?? br.set_handle_refresh( mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time = 1 ) br.addheaders = [ ( 'User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0' ),('Host','eappointment.ica.gov.sg'),('Accept','text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8') ] # authenticate br.open('https://eappointment.ica.gov.sg/ibook/index.do') print "forms" br.select_form(name="calendarForm") print "forms" # these two come from the code you posted # where you would normally put in your username and password br[ "apptDetails.apptType" ] = 'PRAP' res = br.submit() br.close() print "Success!\\n"