- Form controls with the
disabled
attribute will no longer be submitted to improve compliance with the HTML standard. If you were relying on this bug to submit disabled elements, you can still achieve this by deleting thedisabled
attribute from the element in the :class:`~mechanicalsoup.Form` object directly. [#248]
This release focuses on fixing bugs related to uncommon HTTP/HTML scenarios and on improving the documentation.
- Constructing a :class:`~mechanicalsoup.Form` instance from a
bs4.element.Tag
whose tag name is notform
will now emit a warning, and may be deprecated in the future. [#228] - Breaking Change: :class:`~mechanicalsoup.LinkNotFoundError` now derives
from
Exception
instead ofBaseException
. While this will bring the behavior in line with most people's expectations, it may affect the behavior of your code if you were heavily relying on this implementation detail in your exception handling. [#203] - Improve handling of
button
submit elements. Will now correctly ignore buttons of typebutton
andreset
during form submission, since they are not considered to be submit elements. [#199] - Do a better job of inferring the content type of a response if the
Content-Type
header is not provided. [#195] - Improve consistency of query string construction between MechanicalSoup and web browsers in edge cases where form elements have duplicate name attributes. This prevents errors in valid use cases, and also makes MechanicalSoup more tolerant of invalid HTML. [#158]
- Added
StatefulBrowser.refresh()
to reload the current page with the same request. [#188] StatefulBrowser.follow_link
,StatefulBrowser.submit_selected()
and the newStatefulBrowser.download_link
now sets theReferer:
HTTP header to the page from which the link is followed. [#179]- Added method
StatefulBrowser.download_link
, which will download the contents of a link to a file without changing the state of the browser. [#170] - The
selector
argument ofBrowser.select_form
can now be a bs4.element.Tag in addition to a CSS selector. [#169] Browser.submit
andStatefulBrowser.submit_selected
accept a larger number of keyword arguments. Arguments are forwarded to requests.Session.request. [#166]
StatefulBrowser.choose_submit
will now ignore input elements that are missing a name-attribute instead of raising aKeyError
. [#180]- Private methods
Browser._build_request
andBrowser._prepare_request
have been replaced by a single methodBrowser._request
. [#166]
We do not rely on BeautifulSoup's default choice of HTML parser. Instead, we now specify
lxml
as default. As a consequence, the default setting requireslxml
as a dependency.Python 2.6 and 3.3 are no longer supported.
The GitHub URL moved from https://github.com/hickford/MechanicalSoup/ to https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup. @moy and @hemberger are now officially administrators of the project in addition to @hickford, the original author.
We now have a documentation site: https://mechanicalsoup.readthedocs.io/. The API is now fully documented, and we have included a tutorial, several more code examples, and a FAQ.
StatefulBrowser.select_form
can now be called without argument, and defaults to"form"
in this case. It also has a new argument,nr
(defaults to 0), which can be used to specify the index of the form to select if multiple forms match the selection criteria.We now use requirement files. You can install the dependencies of MechanicalSoup with e.g.:
pip install -r requirements.txt -r tests/requirements.txt
The
Form
class was restructured and has a new API. The behavior of existing code is unchanged, but a new collection of methods has been added for clarity and consistency with theset
method:set_input
deprecatesinput
set_textarea
deprecatestextarea
set_select
is newset_checkbox
andset_radio
together deprecatecheck
(checkboxes are handled differently by default)
A new
Form.print_summary
method allows you to writebrowser.get_current_form().print_summary()
to get a summary of the fields you need to fill-in (and which ones are already filled-in).The
Form
class now supports selecting multiple options in a<select multiple>
element.
- Checking checkboxes with
browser["name"] = ("val1", "val2")
now unchecks all checkbox except the ones explicitly specified. StatefulBrowser.submit_selected
andStatefulBrowser.open
now reset __current_page to None when the result is not an HTML page. This fixes a bug where __current_page was still the previous page.- We don't error out anymore when trying to uncheck a box which
doesn't have a
checkbox
attribute. Form.new_control
now correctly overrides existing elements.
- The testsuite has been further improved and reached 100% coverage.
- Tests are now run against the local version of MechanicalSoup, not against the installed version.
Browser.add_soup
will now always attach a soup-attribute. If the response is not text/html, then soup is set to None.Form.set(force=True)
creates an<input type=text ...>
element instead of an<input type=input ...>
.
- Browser and StatefulBrowser can now be configured to raise a LinkNotFound exception when encountering a 404 Not Found error. This is activated by passing raise_on_404=True to the constructor. It is disabled by default for backward compatibility, but is highly recommended.
- Browser now has a __del__ method that closes the current session when the object is deleted.
- A Link object can now be passed to follow_link.
- The user agent can now be customized. The default includes MechanicalSoup and its version.
- There is now a direct interface to the cookiejar in *Browser classes ((set|get)_cookiejar methods).
- This is the last MechanicalSoup version supporting Python 2.6 and 3.3.
- We used to crash on forms without action="..." fields.
- The choose_submit method has been fixed, and the btnName argument of StatefulBrowser.submit_selected is now a shortcut for using choose_submit.
- Arguments to open_relative were not properly forwarded.
- The testsuite has been greatly improved. It now uses the pytest API (not only the pytest launcher) for more concise code.
- The coverage of the testsuite is now measured with codecov.io. The results can be viewed on: https://codecov.io/gh/hickford/MechanicalSoup
- We now have a requires.io badge to help us tracking issues with dependencies. The report can be viewed on: https://requires.io/github/hickford/MechanicalSoup/requirements/
- The version number now appears in a single place in the source code.
see Git history, no changelog sorry.