Logging in with Python Requests

Hi hi. I just figured out how to use the session() object to log into websites using Python Requests. Should work anywhere. Here's the code!

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import requests import re proxies = { 'http': '', 'https': '',} #creates a session object to maintain cookies and shtuff sesh = requests.session() #gets the login page, you need to do this to extract a token from it x = sesh.get('https://wikipage.whatever/wiki/index.php/Special:UserLogin', proxies=proxies) #probably better ways to do this, but an RE will work... reMatch = re.search('wpLoginToken\"\svalue=\"(.*?)\"', x.content) token = reMatch.group(1) #create the POST data. In order to see what fields you'll need, inspect the request through your browser's debug window (f12 before sending request) payload={'wpName':'<userHere>', 'wpPassword':'<passHere>', 'wpDomain':'domain', 'wpLoginAttempt':'Log+in', 'wpLoginToken':token} #logs in. the "&action=submitlogin&type=login" was also gathered during the previous step. y = sesh.post('https://wikipage.whatever/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&action=submitlogin&type=login', data=payload, proxies=proxies) #request whatever article you want z = sesh.get('https://wikipage.whatever/wiki/index.php/articleYouWant', proxies=proxies)