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

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Linking <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seleniumhq.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;03_webdriver.jsp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seleniumhq.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;03_webdriver.jsp</a> would be more worthwhile

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.

I&#x27;ve found selenium to be very heavy and unreliable but perhaps it&#x27;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.