Python and mechanize login script

Question

Hi fellow programmers!

I am trying to write a script to login into my universities \"food balance\" page using python and the mechanize module...

This is the pag

Answer 1

# User credentials
br.form['id']  = myId
br.form['PIN'] = myPin

I believe this is the problem line.

Try changing it to

br['id'] = myId
br['PIN'] = myPin

I'm also pretty sure that you don't need br.form.action = 'https://itapp.wcu.edu/BanAuthRedirector/Default.aspx' because you have already selected the form so just calling submit should work, but I could be wrong.

Additionally, I have done a similar task just using urllib and urllib2, so if this doesn't work I will post that code.

Edit: here is the the technique that I used with urllib and urllib2:

import urllib2, urllib

opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor())
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
encoded = urllib.urlencode({"PIN":my_pin, "id":my_id})
f = opener.open('http://www.wcu.edu/11407.asp', encoded)
data = f.read()
f.close()

Edit 2:

>>> b = mechanize.Browser(factory=mechanize.RobustFactory())
>>> b.open('http://www.wcu.edu/11407.asp')
>>
>>> b.select_form(nr=2)
>>> b.form

>>> b.form.attrs
{'action': 'https://itapp.wcu.edu/BanAuthRedirector/Default.aspx', 'method': 'post'}

This could be your problem? Not sure.

Edit 3:

Used an html inspector, I think there's a decent chance you need to set 'wcuirs_uir' to 'https://cf.wcu.edu/busafrs/catcard/idsearch.cfm'. I'm 95% sure that will work.