Using the urllib2 library and the add_header function, I am able to authenticate and retrieve data in python 2.7. But since urllib2 library in more present in python 3, how do I add the Basic Authentication header with urllib library?
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Do yourself a favour and use requests docs.python-requests.org/en/master/apiPadraic Cunningham– Padraic Cunningham2016-04-11 20:38:23 +00:00Commented Apr 11, 2016 at 20:38
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Please check add_header method of urllib.request's Request class.
import urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request('http://www.example.com/')
req.add_header('Referer', 'http://www.python.org/')
r = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
By the way, I recommend you to check another way, using HTTPBasicAuthHandler:
import urllib.request
# Create an OpenerDirector with support for Basic HTTP Authentication...
auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
auth_handler.add_password(realm='PDQ Application',
uri='https://mahler:8092/site-updates.py',
user='klem',
passwd='kadidd!ehopper')
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(auth_handler)
# ...and install it globally so it can be used with urlopen.
urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.example.com/login.html')
(taken from the same page)
