I am trying to write a webscraping app to get pesticide labels from the CDPR website. The final part that I can’t manage is simply ticking a checkbox for the pesticide I want to collect info from. The names of the checkboxes are seemingly random.

The attached image has the checkbox I am trying to scape. I cannot for the life of me figure out why these are named the way they are.

I am using Mechanicalsoup and BeautifulSoup4.

I decided to just try and select the first checkbox element but it hasn’t been working.

# Locate the first entry in the table and check the checkbox
    browser.page.select_one(["type='checkbox'"])
    browser.submit_selected()
    print(browser.form.print_summary())