Login to website using python requests

Question

I\'m trying to login to https://www.voxbeam.com/login using requests to scrape data. I\'m a python beginner and I have done mostly tutorials, and some web scraping on my own

Answer 1

As said above, you should send values of all fields of form. Those can be find in the Web inspector of browser. This form send 2 addition hidden values:

url = "https://www.voxbeam.com//login"
data = {'userName':'xxxxxxxxx','password':'yyyyyyyyy','challenge':'zzzzzzzzz','hash':''}  
# note that in email have encoded '@' like uuuuuuu%40gmail.com      

session = requests.Session()
r = session.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)

Also, many sites have protection from a bot like hidden form fields, js, send encoded values, etc. As variants you could:

1) Use a cookies from manual login:

url = "https://www.voxbeam.com"
headers = {'user-agent': "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.98 Safari/537.36"}
cookies = {'PHPSESSID':'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz', 'loggedIn':'yes'}

s = requests.Session()
r = s.post(url, headers=headers, cookies=cookies)

2) Use module Selenium:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

url = "https://www.voxbeam.com//login"
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(url)

u = driver.find_element_by_name('userName')
u.send_keys('xxxxxxxxx')
p = driver.find_element_by_name('password')
p.send_keys('yyyyyyyyy')
p.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)