mechanize python click a button

clicking a type="button" in a pure html form does nothing. For it to do anything, there must be javascript involved.

And mechanize doesn’t run javascript.

So your options are:

  • Read the javascript yourself and simulate with mechanize what it would be doing
  • Use spidermonkey to run the javascript code

I’d do the first one, since using spidermonkey seems hard and probably not worth it.

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