Stateful programmatic web browsing in Python, after Andy Lester’s Perl module WWW::Mechanize. mechanize.Browser and mechanize.UserAgentBase implement the interface of urllib2.OpenerDirector, so: any URL can be opened, not just http: mechanize.UserAgentBase offers easy dynamic configuration of user-agent features like protocol, cookie, redirection and robots.txt handling, without having to make a n
