Installing Mechanical Soup and Making a Plan

00:00 I will go ahead and install MechanicalSoup into my virtual environment, `python -m pip install MechanicalSoup, and press Enter.

00:14 I got that installed, and next I want to make a new file that I will call fill_ form.py. Okay, what do I want to do? Again get the HTML or get access to the HTML,

00:34 find the form, fill the form. I want to submit the form, and then I want to print the title of the redirection page. These are my tasks. And you’ll see this works a little bit differently than the last two ones.

00:56 In my opinion, it’s kind of like the most fun of the three, but that’s also because the Mechanical Soup library was built around having some high-level interaction possibilities that are quite intuitive.

01:08 So I’ll probably actually start off again in Python interpreter to just play around with this and see where we can get to just using the high-level interface that Mechanical Soup provides.

01:20 Double-check that this was installed correctly

01:25 import MechanicalSoup looks like it’s working, perfect. Let’s keep it at that. And then the next lesson, let’s start exploring the page from the Python REPL using MechanicalSoup.