Mechanize users - Mar 2007 - Submitting a form sends a file. How do I save it?

I''ve been using Mechanize for a project that i''ve been working
on,
but this is the first time i''m having to use forms (scraping  
previously).  So, after i fill out the form, when I hit submit, it  
sends me information in the form of a text file to download.  For the  
life of me, I can''t see how to get access to it.  When clicking on a  
link, you can put a save_as on it and save the data as a file.

How do I save off data that''s sent to me via the submit of a form?

Thanks for any advice,

Will

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:39:21PM -0400, William Flanagan
wrote:
> I''ve been using Mechanize for a project that i''ve been
working on,
> but this is the first time i''m having to use forms (scraping  
> previously).  So, after i fill out the form, when I hit submit, it  
> sends me information in the form of a text file to download.  For the  
> life of me, I can''t see how to get access to it.  When clicking on
a
> link, you can put a save_as on it and save the data as a file.
> 
> How do I save off data that''s sent to me via the submit of a form?
Are you able to get a page object back after you submit the form?  You
can just call "save_as" on the object returned from the form
submission.

So something like this:

  form.submit.save_as(''blah.txt'')

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