I am trying to write a program that retrieves data from a site. However the url automatically displays the most recent data (from within the past month). I want to receive the data for the past year. On the page there is the option of choosing a previous data to retrieve data from. However the url does not change when I navigate to the previous date. It stays the same but displays the older data.
I have tried using geturl() from urllib2 and it also tells me the url has not changed. Also when I use info() the handlers displayed don't give the option of choosing a data date so I don't see how I can send a request that specifies the data I want to be retrieved.
The only thing I see that I can do is have the script navigate to the website and then type in the data wanted and then click 'go'.
Does anyone know how this could be done or if there is a better way?
BTW the page is a .aspx if that helps.
eg http://www.example.com/thing.aspx?something=something
I am kind of new to programming so I would appreciate noob talk ;).