Jive Dadson wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python:
> Hey folks! > > There are various web pages that I would like to read using urllib, but > they require login with passwords. Can anyone tell me how to find out > how to do that, both in general and specifically for YouTube.com. > A typical pattern is submit a form to login and get a cookie back, subsuquent request with the cookie set are then "loged in". import cookielib, urllib2 cj = cookielib.CookieJar() opener = urllib2.build_opener( urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj) ) page = opener.open( LOGIN_URL, data = LOGIN_FORM ) page.close() page = opener.open( DOWNLOAD_URL ) print page.read() page.close() You will need to work out what goes in LOGIN_FORM, it likely something like: LOGIN_FORM = "username=name&password=pass&submit-button=Some+value" where username, password and submit-button are the name of the controls on the form you would normally login from. If the form has an enctype='multipart/form-data' then things get a little more complex, possibly start here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/146306 Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
