How can I login to a website with Python?

Question

How can I do it? I was trying to enter some specified link (with urllib), but to do it, I need to log in.

I have this source from the site:

<form id="login-form" action="auth/login" method="post">
    <div>
    <!--label for="rememberme">Remember me</label><input type="checkbox" class="remember" checked="checked" name="remember me" /-->
    <label for="email" id="email-label" class="no-js">Email</label>
    <input id="email-email" type="text" name="handle" value="" autocomplete="off" />
    <label for="combination" id="combo-label" class="no-js">Combination</label>
    <input id="password-clear" type="text" value="Combination" autocomplete="off" />
    <input id="password-password" type="password" name="password" value="" autocomplete="off" />
    <input id="sumbitLogin" class="signin" type="submit" value="Sign In" />

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Maybe you want to use twill. It's quite easy to use and should be able to do what you want.

It will look like the following:

from twill.commands import *
go('http://example.org')

fv("1", "email-email", "blabla.com")
fv("1", "password-clear", "testpass")

submit('0')

You can use showforms() to list all forms once you used go… to browse to the site you want to login. Just try it from the python interpreter.