Python: Log in to a website using Requests module

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I am trying to use Requests module to login into a site and get the html of the landing page. I am new to these stuff and I can't find a decent tutorial for this. Here's the information that I have about that page HTML of the form for login (url:http://14.139.251.99:8080/jopacv06/html/checkouts)

<FORM NAME="form" METHOD="POST" ACTION="./memberlogin" onsubmit="this.onsubmit= function(){return false;}">


<table class='loginTbl' border='1' align="center" cellspacing='3' cellpadding='3' width='60%'>
   <input type="hidden" name="hdnrequesttype" value="1" />
   <thead>
   <tr>
    <td colspan='3' align="middle" class='loginHead'>Login</td>
   </tr>
   </thead>

   <tbody class='loginBody'>

   <tr>
    <td class='loginBodyTd1' nowrap="nowrap">Employee ID</td>
    <td class='loginBodyTd2'><input type='text' name='txtmemberid' id='txtmemberid' value='' class='loginTextBox' size='30' maxlength='8'/></td>
    <td class='loginBodyTd3' rowspan='2'><input type="submit" class="goclearbutton" value="  Go  "></td>
   </tr><input type='hidden' name='txtmemberpwd' id='txtmemberpwd' value='' />

   </tbody>

   <tfoot>
    <tr>
        <td colspan='3' class='loginFoot'>
            <font class='loginRed'>New Visitor?</font>

            <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=New Registration&body=New Registartion Request">Send</a> your registration request to library !

           </td>
       </tr>
   </tfoot>

   </table>
   </form>

I came to know that I may need to set cookie , so the cookie name in the landing page is JSESSIONID(in case that's reqd). And I discovered that once I successfuly log in then I would have to use beautifulSoup to get the details. Please help me how to combine these pieces together.

short answer - use mechanize or selenium

n1c9
– n1c9

2015-12-21 06:42:41 +00:00
Commented Dec 21, 2015 at 6:42 — n1c9
– n1c9, Commented Dec 21, 2015 at 6:42

Aashish P · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-21 06:49:53Z

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You will have to do something like this,

import requests

response = requests.post("http://14.139.251.99:8080/jopacv06/html/checkouts/memberlogin", data = {'txtmemberid': '1'})

if response.status_code == 200:
    html_code = response.text
// Do whatever you want to do further with this HTML now.

answered Dec 21, 2015 at 6:49

Aashish P

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3 Comments

Satwik Over a year ago

I tried it with a valid id but its showing the html of some other page again and again.

Aashish P Over a year ago

Did you try hitting the URL from some other tool ? Do you get same result ? You can use tools like Postman REST client chrome plugin...

Satwik Over a year ago

Thanks , I just included 'txtmemberpwd'=' ' in the data dictionary and it worked for me.

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