How to use Python to login to a webpage and retrieve cookies for later usage?
Here’s a version using the excellent requests library: from requests import session payload = { ‘action’: ‘login’, ‘username’: USERNAME, ‘password’: PASSWORD } with session() as c: c.post(‘http://example.com/login.php’, data=payload) response = c.get(‘http://example.com/protected_page.php’) print(response.headers) print(response.text)