I'm trying to extract information (people's names and other info.) from a public database into a spreadsheet. Unfortunately, info about the people in the dataset (like their name and occupation) is not visible in the source code. Instead, there is this application by Caspio done, from what I can tell, in Flash.
I have several related questions:
1. Is there a way for Python to scrape information from Flash applications?
2. I know that Python's mechanize can perform automatic searches (for example, searching a lot of information from a list). However, can it also
- select options from a dropdown menu?
- click arrows on the bottom of a screen to proceed to the next page of a listing of information?
Thanks,
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