title: Scraping an embed element using lxml.html, or how to trick a website into thinking you have Flash installed
body: <p>I'm attempting to scrape a website and I need to get at an embed element, but because I'm using Python and lxml.html the website accurately concludes that I do not have Flash installed and instead of showing me the embed element, it shows me this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div&gt;
      &lt;font&gt;
          &lt;u&gt;
              &lt;b&gt;
                  &lt;a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/"&gt;
                  ATTENTION:&lt;br&gt;This video will not play. You currently do not have Adobe Flash installed on this computer. Please click here to download it (it's free!)
                  &lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;/b&gt;
          &lt;/u&gt;
      &lt;/font&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Obviously that is a problem, so I'm wondering if it is at all possible to trick the browser into thinking you have Flash installed even though you don't, for the purposes of retrieving the right element?</p>
  
  <p>I hope someone can help!</p>