Log into Google account using Python?

Question

I want to Sign into my Google account using Python but when I print the html results it doesn\'t show my username. That\'s how I know it isn\'t logged in.

How do I s

Answer 1

This will get you logged in:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests


form_data={'Email': 'you@gmail.com', 'Passwd': 'your_password'}
post = "https://accounts.google.com/signin/challenge/sl/password"

with requests.Session() as s:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(s.get("https://mail.google.com").text)
    for inp in soup.select("#gaia_loginform input[name]"):
        if inp["name"] not in form_data:
            form_data[inp["name"]] = inp["value"]
    s.post(post, form_data)
    html = s.get("https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox").content

If you save and open the html in a browser, you will see the Loading you@gmail.com…, you would need Javascript to actually load the page. You can further verify by putting in a bad password, if you do you will see the html of the login page again.

You can see in your browser a lot more gets posted than you have provided, the values are contained in the gaia_loginform.

I am obviously not going to share my email or password but you can I have my email stored in a variable my_mail below, you can see when we test for it that it is there:

In [3]: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

In [4]: import requests

In [5]: post = "https://accounts.google.com/signin/challenge/sl/password"

In [6]: with requests.Session() as s:
   ...:         soup = BeautifulSoup(s.get("https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?elo=1").text, "html.parser")
   ...:         for inp in soup.select("#gaia_loginform input[name]"):
   ...:             if inp["name"] not in form_data:
   ...:                     form_data[inp["name"]] = inp["value"]
   ...:         s.post(post, form_data)
   ...:         

In [7]: my_mail in  s.get("https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox").text
Out[7]: True