Login and upload file using Python 'requests'

Question

I need to login and upload a file . The problem I am facing is, login page is different from uploading page. If I have to do it manually, I\'ll login (login.php

Answer 1

Make a session and then use that session to do your requests -

sessionObj = requests.session()
sessionOj.get(...) # Do whatever ...

A session persists your cookies for future requests.
And use post parameters for username,password as the parameters are required to login in login.php , not auth username password.
Also use files parameter to upload files. So the final code is -

import requests

sessionObj = requests.session()
url1='http://www.abc.com/login.php'
r = sessionObj.post(url1, params={'username':'usernamehere' , 'password':'password here'})
print r.status_code //msg:'200'


filehandle = open('./tmp.txt')
url2='http://www.abc.com/uploader.php'
r = sessionObj.post(url2, data={},files = {'upload':filehandle})
print r.text

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