Python : Trying to POST form using requests

Question

I\'m trying to login a website for some scraping using Python and requests library, I am trying the following (which doesn\'t work):

import requests
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Answer 1

You can use the Session object

import requests
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
payload = {'username':'niceusername','password':'123456'}

session = requests.Session()
session.post('https://admin.example.com/login.php',headers=headers,data=payload)
# the session instance holds the cookie. So use it to get/post later.
# e.g. session.get('https://example.com/profile')