Send POST to server via python-requests

The other day I've had a question asked:

How do you send a form data to a server and get the reply?

My solution involves python-requests:

__author__ = 'Laur IVAN'

import requests


proxies = {
    'http': 'http://.../',
    'https': 'http://.../'
}

payload = {
    'Sentence': 'There was a little red hat.',
    'Constituents': 'on',
    'NullLinks': 'on',
    'AllLinkages': 'on',
    'LinkDisplay': 'on',
    'ShortLegth': '6',
    'PageFile': '/docs/submit-sentence-4.html',
    'InputFile': "/scripts/input-to-parser",
    'Maintainer': "[email protected]"
}

r = requests.post(
    "http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/link/construct-page-4.cgi#submit",
    data=payload, proxies=proxies)

print r.text

r.text contains the reply HTML page, which then needs to be processed via e.g. python's DOM processing module or BeautifulSoup (if you're looking for something more tolerant).

HTH,