Using Python To Interact With Webpages

In my current job we have a web based Business intelligence tool where every morning i have to create data extracts from the system and paste them into a PowerPoint presentation. I

Solution 1:

All this can be done automated using selenium[1] . If you know the class name/id etc for the listboxes, selenium allows you to send click events to the browser for checking/unchecking listboxes. Read up [2] on filling HTML forms using selenium. You can find the relevant code in the documentation links below.

[1] http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/) [2] http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/navigating.html#filling-in-forms