submit_web_form.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
"""
requires requests
$ pip install requests

"""
import requests
import urllib
import urllib2

ID_USERNAME = 'signup-user-name'
ID_EMAIL = 'signup-user-email'
ID_PASSWORD = 'signup-user-password'
USERNAME = 'username'
EMAIL = 'you@email.com'
PASSWORD = 'yourpassword'
SIGNUP_URL = 'https://twitter.com/account/create'


def submit_form():
    payload = {ID_USERNAME: USERNAME,
               ID_EMAIL:   EMAIL,
               ID_PASSWORD:   PASSWORD, }

    # make a get request
    resp = requests.get(SIGNUP_URL)
    print "Response to GET request: %s" % resp.content

    # send POST request
    resp = requests.post(SIGNUP_URL, payload)
    print "Headers from a POST request response: %s" % resp.headers
    # print "HTML Response: %s" %resp.read()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    submit_form()