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Having problem using Mechanize to log into Google Account

Kevin Lee

6/11/2007 3:01:00 AM

I am struggling with Mechanize to login to my Google account. Here is
my code:

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
page = agent.get('https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin...)
# or http://www.google.co...

google_form = page.forms[0]
google_form.fields.name("Email").first.value = 'myaddress'
google_form.fields.find {|f| f.name == 'Passwd'}.value = 'mypasswd'

pp page
results = agent.submit(google_form, google_form.buttons.first)
pp page
puts results.body

The values of the Email and Passwd fields remain empty. So it appears
to me that the code fails to login. What more should I do? Please
help!

Thanks in advance!

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1 Answer

Peter Szinek

6/11/2007 8:08:00 AM

0

Kevin,

> The values of the Email and Passwd fields remain empty. So it appears
> to me that the code fails to login. What more should I do? Please
> help!

Mechanize can not handle Javascript, so it won't work this way. You have
two options here:

1) Scrape the non-JS page - check this article:

http://schf.uc.org/articles/2007/02/14/scraping-gmail-with-mechanize-a...

2) Use Watir (FireWatir if you are not on win32) which can handle
JavaScript.

btw, posting mechanize related questions to the mechanize list
(mechanize-users@rubyforge.org) can yield better response time/quality.

HTH,
Peter
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