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...

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Answer 1

I suggest the following library: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

It is a nice and easy library. It has a good documentation. I have used this library to do different kind of scripting, just like the one you are doing.

You need to do something like this:

import requests 

s = requests.Session()
url = 'https://itapp.wcu.edu/BanAuthRedirector/Default.aspx'                    
myId = 'xxxxxxxx'                                                               
myPin = 'xxxxxxxx'  
headers = {'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.56 Safari/535.11',
           'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
           'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip,deflate,sdch',                  
           'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',                     
           'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3'}
data = {'id':myId,                                                          
        'PIN':myPin,                                                        
        'submit':'Request Access',                                          
        'wcuirs_uri':'https://cf.wcu.edu/busafrs/catcard/idsearch.cfm'} 
response = s.post(url, headers = headers, data=date)

if response.status_code == 200: #Maybe add another constraint to be sure we are logged in
    #Now do any call you want
    response = s.get(another_url)
    print response.text

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