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Asked: 2026-05-13T23:29:58+00:00

I’m trying to fill-out a form automatically and press a button on that form

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I’m trying to fill-out a form automatically and press a button on that form and wait for a response. How do I go about doing this?
To be more particular, I have a a –HUGE– collection DNA strains which I need to compare to each-other. Luckily, there’s a website that does exactly what I need.
Basically, I type-in 2 different sequences of DNA and click the “Align Sequences” button and get a result (the calculation of the score is not relevant).
Is there a way to make a Java program that will automatically insert the input, “click” the button and read the response from this website?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In Python you can use mechanize library (http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/). It’s quite simple and you doesn’t need to know Python very well to use it.

    Simple example (filling login form):

    br = Browser()
br.open(login_link)
br.select_form(name="login")
br["email"] = "email@server.com"
br["pass"] = "password"
br.submit()
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