Show HN: Python script to automate filling out Google form using Selenium

Show HN: Python script to automate filling out Google form using Selenium(github.com)

10 points by vedipen 7 years ago | 5 comments

adpirz 7 years ago |

Looks good! One of the best reasons to learn python: automating the boring stuff. If you like to write these scripts, definitely check out this book (free online): https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

With all that said, I'm baffled as to why this automation script for a particular Google form --a protected one, no less -- is on the front page...

vedipen 7 years ago | |

Thanks for the reply. Surely this can be more generic, where the script itself asks for the required input for once, fetching questions from any form (instead of hard-coding them in the script) and using those inputs to submit it n times!

dymk 7 years ago |

Linking https://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp would be more worthwhile

amanzi 7 years ago |

Good work. As someone who has dabbled a bit in Python scraping and forms, I can appreciate the amount of work that must have gone into this.

dplgk 7 years ago |

I've found selenium to be very heavy and unreliable but perhaps it's needed to deal with whatever barrage of cookies and verification Google implements? Did you find it easy to use? I use either mechanize (works like a headless browser, handles cookies, forms, etc) or beautiful soup for scraping.