twill: a simple scripting language for Web browsing

twill is a simple language that allows users to browse the Web from a command-line interface. With twill, you can navigate through Web sites that use forms, cookies, and most standard Web features.
twill supports automated Web testing and has a simple Python interface. Check out the examples!
twill is open source and written in Python.

Downloading twill

The latest release of twill is twill 0.9, released Thursday, December 27th, 2007; it is available for download at http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.9.tar.gz. You can also use Python's easy_install to install or upgrade twill.
twill works with Python 2.3 or later.
To start using twill, install it and then type twill-sh. At the prompt type:

go http://www.slashdot.org/
show
showforms
showhistory

Documentation

The documentation for the latest release is always at http://twill.idyll.org/.
The in-development version of the docs can be found at http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill/doc/.
Documentation is available for the following topics:

• Examples -- some short examples.
• Web browsing with twill -- General introduction to twill.
• Language reference -- the twill scripting language.
• Testing Web sites with twill -- how to use twill to test Web sites.
• Extension modules -- extension modules that come with twill.
• Python API -- for Python programmers interested in using twill from Python.
• Developer information -- for Python developers interested in extending or fixing twill.
• Other tools and packages -- projects relevant to, or based upon, twill.
• Known problems -- those problems that are still lurking in the code.