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Andy
Andy

Reputation: 263

Python Requests Logging into a website

Heyo,

Able to log into my school website using requests and the .post method (Trying to create a feed showing when new results are up)

url = "https://pipeline.tsc.nsw.edu.au/scots/pages/main/login.php"
payload = {'username': 'my.name', 'password': 'password'}

with requests.Session() as s:
    r = s.post(url, data=payload)
    print(r.text) # Write to file and create filter to check against old code

The difficulty I'm having is that the website seems to generate a url for you with an 'eduId' in the browser bar e.g

https://pipeline.tsc.nsw.edu.au/scots/pages/mainframe.php?eduId=3993834&displayID=&theme=scots&version=4.2.2&demo=-1

You're redirected to this url when you successfully login to the site but I can't seem to get it with requests.

Does anybody know how to handle the redirect or gather the redirected URL? Thanks

NOTE: For all I can tell the login is either not taking place or not registering the redirect as the incorrect login message doesn't show up in the downloaded code

Upvotes: 1

Views: 95

Answers (1)

Lallen
Lallen

Reputation: 528

I suggest that you take a look at the Mechanize python lib, Mechanize behaves like a browser and make it simpler to handle sessions, redirects etc. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/

Upvotes: 1

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