Automatically fill in forms on line

[Jackie Wang]

Dear all,

I want to automatically complete the following task:

1. Go to http://www.ffiec.gov/Geocode/default.aspx;
2. Fill in an address in the form "Street Address:" . e.g. "1316 State
Highway 102";
3. Fill in a ZIPcode in the form "Zip Code:" . e.g. "04609";
4. Click the bottom "search";
5. In the opened page, extract and save the number after "Tract Code".
In the example, it will be "9659".
6. Repeat Step 1 with a new address.

Can Python realize these steps? Can these steps be done witout
openning and IE windows? Especially, I dont know how to write code for
step 2, 4 and 5.

Thank you!

[Mike Driscoll]

Re: Automatically fill in forms on line

On Mar 31, 11:50 am, "Jackie Wang" <jackie.pyt...@ gmail.comwrote:

Dear all,
>
I want to automatically complete the following task:
>
1. Go tohttp://www.ffiec.gov/Geocode/default.aspx;
2. Fill in an address in the form "Street Address:" . e.g. "1316 State
Highway 102";
3. Fill in a ZIPcode in the form "Zip Code:" . e.g. "04609";
4. Click the bottom "search";
5. In the opened page, extract and save the number after "Tract Code".
In the example, it will be "9659".
6. Repeat Step 1 with a new address.
>
Can Python realize these steps? Can these steps be done witout
openning and IE windows? Especially, I dont know how to write code for
step 2, 4 and 5.
>
Thank you!

You might take a look at PAMIE: http://pamie.sourceforge.net/

or ClientForm: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/

Those are what are usually recommended.

Mike

[Jason Scheirer]

Re: Automatically fill in forms on line

On Mar 31, 9:50 am, "Jackie Wang" <jackie.pyt...@ gmail.comwrote:

Dear all,
>
I want to automatically complete the following task:
>
1. Go tohttp://www.ffiec.gov/Geocode/default.aspx;
2. Fill in an address in the form "Street Address:" . e.g. "1316 State
Highway 102";
3. Fill in a ZIPcode in the form "Zip Code:" . e.g. "04609";
4. Click the bottom "search";
5. In the opened page, extract and save the number after "Tract Code".
In the example, it will be "9659".
6. Repeat Step 1 with a new address.
>
Can Python realize these steps? Can these steps be done witout
openning and IE windows? Especially, I dont know how to write code for
step 2, 4 and 5.
>
Thank you!

You may also want to look at the Yahoo! maps API, which will also give
you geocoding with a much nicer interface:

http://www.yahooapis.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html

unless you specifically need to use the TeleAtlas data or the API
licensing is incompatible with the task at hand, I'd recommend using
that instead.

[Jason Scheirer]

Re: Automatically fill in forms on line

On Mar 31, 10:35 am, Jason Scheirer <jason.schei... @gmail.comwrote :

On Mar 31, 9:50 am, "Jackie Wang" <jackie.pyt...@ gmail.comwrote:
>
>
>

Dear all,

>

I want to automatically complete the following task:

>

1. Go tohttp://www.ffiec.gov/Geocode/default.aspx;
2. Fill in an address in the form "Street Address:" . e.g. "1316 State
Highway 102";
3. Fill in a ZIPcode in the form "Zip Code:" . e.g. "04609";
4. Click the bottom "search";
5. In the opened page, extract and save the number after "Tract Code".
In the example, it will be "9659".
6. Repeat Step 1 with a new address.

>

Can Python realize these steps? Can these steps be done witout
openning and IE windows? Especially, I dont know how to write code for
step 2, 4 and 5.

>

Thank you!

>
You may also want to look at the Yahoo! maps API, which will also give
you geocoding with a much nicer interface:
>

http://www.yahooapis.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html

>
unless you specifically need to use the TeleAtlas data or the API
licensing is incompatible with the task at hand, I'd recommend using
that instead.

And as a follow up, check out the Python Geocoding Toolbox:

http://exogen.case.edu/projects/geopy/

It already has Yahoo! Geocoding API bindings, as well as Google Maps
geocidng bindings in a nice Pythonic interface.