Logging in to LinkedIn with python requests sessions

Question

I\'m trying to log into LinkedIn using Python requests:

import sys
import requests
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup


payload={
    \'session-key\' :          


        

Answer 1

2019 Version.

Slightly revised version working that takes into account the new structure of the page to find the connection cookie and adds the trk parameter.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

email = ""
password = ""

client = requests.Session()

HOMEPAGE_URL = 'https://www.linkedin.com'
LOGIN_URL = 'https://www.linkedin.com/uas/login-submit'

html = client.get(HOMEPAGE_URL).content
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
csrf = soup.find('input', {'name': 'loginCsrfParam'}).get('value')

login_information = {
    'session_key': email,
    'session_password': password,
    'loginCsrfParam': csrf,
    'trk': 'guest_homepage-basic_sign-in-submit'
}

client.post(LOGIN_URL, data=login_information)

response = client.get('')