How to input data from a web page to Python script most efficiently
Solution 1
I now managed it with the exec() command.
<html>
<body>
<form action="test.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="name" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
test.php:
<?php
exec("python mypythonscript.py ".$name, $output);
?>
Solution 2
To get a value from the form you could change action="test.php" to action="/where_you_hooked_your_webapp".
The code of the application could be:
from flask import Flask, render_template, request
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def handle_input():
userIn = request.args.get('name', 'default name goes here')
# grab data from the web, prepare data for html template, etc
return render_template('user.html', user=userIn, data=data)
To find out how you can deploy it see Flask Quickstart e.g., Apache with mod_wsgi.
Comments
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birgit almost 2 years
How can I most easily input data from a web page and pass it to a Python script?
I've been reading here and on other forums a lot about Python in connection with php or cgi, or even Tornado, Django, etc but I am quite puzzled what is the best solution for me.
I have a Python script that grabs data from the web, generates .html pages etc - when being run there is just one
userIn=str(raw_input())which makes the script gather data based on the input in the terminal. I now only want this input to be coming from some sort of
<html> <body> <form action="test.php" method="get"> Name <input type="text" name="name" /> <input type="submit" /> </form> </body> </html>In the file test.php I have tried passing the value in any kind (proc_open, exec...) but I do not seem to get the connection between python and this form, on top of that I am not sure what's the best idea to pass python's output (some debugging-errors etc) back to the web-interface?!
Thanks a lot!