🚀 Google Form AutoFill and Submit

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Someone send us a Google-form, and we need to fill it everyday or maybe every hour to report something. It seems to be boring, so I just think to write a script to build this auto-bot using Python 3

This is a simple and lightweight script to automatically fill and submit a Google form. It's also include a request body generator, you can simply copy and paste a Google form URL, eliminating the need for manual inspection.

This document will guide you through the process of creating a Python script to automatically fill and submit a Google form.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• requests library (pip install requests or pip install -r requirements.txt)

Just build it

Create and access URL

The URL of the Google form will look like this:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/form-index/viewform

Just copy it and replace viewform to formResponse

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/form-index/formResponse

Extract information

Automatically

Just copy the Google form URL and run form.py script. The script will return a dictionary which contains the name attributes of each input element and the data you need to fill out.

python form.py <your-gg-form-url>

The result will be printed to the console (by default) or saved to a file if the -o option is used.

For more information use the help command

python form.py -h

Example:

python form.py 'https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwcwvrOeBG200L0tCSUHc1MLebycACWIi3qw0UBK31GE26Yg/formResponse' -o results.txt

Manually

Open the Google form, then open DevTools (inspect) for inspecting the input element.

Each of the input elements which we need to fill data has format: name = "entry.id"

Try to fill each input box to know its id

Note: if the form requires email, please add the emailAddress field

Write the Python script

Fill form

Create a dictionary in which keys are the name attributes of each input element, and values are the data you need to fill out

def fill_form():
    name = get_name_by_day()
    date, hour = str(get_gmt_time()).split(' ')
    date = date.split('-')
    hour = hour.split(':')
    if (int(hour[0]) < 10):
        hour[0] = hour[0][1:]

    value = {
         # Text
        "entry.2112281434": name,
        # Dropdown menu
        "entry.1600556346": "Sài Gòn",
        # Date
        "entry.77071893_year": date[0],
        "entry.77071893_month": date[1],
        "entry.77071893_day": date[2],
        # Hour
        "entry.855769839": hour[0] + 'h',
        # Checkbox 
        "entry.819260047": ["Cà phê", "Bể bơi"],
        # One choice
        "entry.1682233942": "Okay"
    }
    print(value, flush = True)
    return value

Submit form

Just use POST method in requests

def submit(url, data):
    try:
        requests.post(url, data = data)
        print("Submitted successfully!")
    except:
        print("Error!")

submit(url, fill_form())

Done!!!

Limitations

Please note that this script currently operates only with Google Forms that do not require user authentication.