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I know no python. I want to start learning and I have a specific project I need to accomplish... it involves automating a web page to extract data.

I learn mainly by seeing and then doing... not reading a book.

What script(s) would be good examples of what I need to do that I can learn from?


Steps I need to script on the web page (all asp with jscript)...

1) enter a date range and click search button

2) take search output (form data) and parse it to get the links (jscript calls) it creates.

3) trigger each link and then scrape the data that the resulting web page table displays.

I know for a seasoned python'r this is probably trivial but I'm sure I will need to see examples and hack my way through it.

I've even be willing to pay someone a small fee to write this for me just so I can see how it is done.