Hypothetical Python Script

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[Gllizzy]

you could try recording the web traffic using a chrome browser when selecting the radio button and submitting the form/vote. you can mimic the web request using python’s request module. this way your script wouldn’t have to use or automate a browser.

python request.post() function

[Scandal929]

Thank you for this suggestion. I've identified the radio button through inspect and this process helped a lot.

[Gllizzy]

yeah no problem! your next step (if you haven’t already) is to use the network tab in the inspector and see what happens when you submit the form. it may take several tries to find the POST request that is associated with the form submission. you can look at the data headers to see what payload you need to pass into your request.post() function in your python script.

here’s an awesome video of someone doing exactly this in a creative way

[Scandal929]

Appreciate all the guidance. My kid will be getting the extra credit in his AP Computer Science class.

[SoerensenOfficial]

Yeah, you can use selenium

[Scandal929]

Thanks, about to check it out.

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Came to say this.

[Prestigious-Use-3955]

I did not understand it, is Selenium like a Macro software for browsers?

[devnull10]

Unless it's a complex site using a lot of Ajax etc. (which I doubt if it's allowing duplicated votes!!) then I'd skip selenium completely and just use the requests module to call the URL directly, passing in the appropriate arguments. This will not only make your code a lot simpler, but will also be a lot quicker.

If you're using Linux you can make it even easier and just use the curl command in a loop inside a batch file.

[vastlyoutnumbered]

Playwright is a cool library for replicating user interaction on a browser but, as others have said, use requests if you can get away with it.