twill: a simple scripting language for web browsing

Contents:

• twill Overview
  • Downloading twill
  • Documentation
  • Contributing
  • Authors and License
  • Acknowledgements and History
• Installing twill
  • Troubleshooting your installation
  • Upgrading twill
• ChangeLog
  • 3.3 (released 2024-10-13)
  • 3.2.5 (released 2024-06-28)
  • 3.2.4 (released 2024-04-27)
  • 3.2.3 (released 2024-03-05)
  • 3.2.2 (released 2024-01-28)
  • 3.2.1 (released 2023-11-23)
  • 3.2 (released 2023-11-02)
  • 3.1 (released 2022-10-30)
  • 3.0.3 (released 2022-10-12)
  • 3.0.2 (released 2022-04-10)
  • 3.0.1 (released 2021-12-04)
  • 3.0 (released 2021-02-25)
  • 2.0.3 (released 2021-02-25)
  • 2.0.2 (released 2021-02-13)
  • 2.0.1 (released 2020-07-12)
  • 2.0 (released 2020-04-04)
• twill Examples
  • Example: logging into slashdot
  • Example: searching Google and going to the first hit
• Web browsing with twill
  • Using twill interactively
  • Proxy servers
  • Recording scripts
  • Miscellaneous implementation details
  • Using HTML Tidy to check for broken HTML
• twill language reference
  • Browsing
  • Assertions
  • Display
  • Forms
  • Cookies
  • Debugging
  • Variable handling
  • Other commands
  • Special variables
  • Details on form handling
• Testing Web sites with twill
  • Using the twill command
  • Stress testing
  • Unit testing
  • Testing WSGI applications “in-process”
• twill Extension Modules
  • check_links – a simple link checker
  • match_parse – extension for regular expressions with multiple matches
  • require – assert that specific conditions hold after each page is loaded
  • mailman_sf – discard spam messages from your SourceForge mailing lists
  • argparse – pass arguments into twill scripts via sys.argv
  • dns_check – make assertions about domain name service records
  • csv_iterate – iterate over lists of values
  • dirstack – manipulate the current working directory (cwd)
  • formfill – convenience functions for filling out forms
• twill’s Python API
  • Using twill from Python
  • Extending twill
  • Passing variables from Python into twill
  • Using twill in other Python programs
• Developing twill
  • Package tests
  • Licensing
  • Developer releases
• Propaganda, tools and packages
  • Other opinions
  • Offshoots from the twill project
  • Other Python-based Web testing and browsing tools

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page