A friend is trying to run a script to check which notebooks are using the most memory, but their server is password protected. I'm trying to figure out how to configure authentication using urllib2 since I don't believe there is a username, only a password.
The @aiguofer answer did not work for me because jupyter now uses '_xsrf' in cookie. The follwoing woked for me:
s = requests.Session()
url='http://127.0.0.1:8888/login/'
resp=s.get(url)
xsrf_cookie = resp.cookies['_xsrf']
params={'_xsrf':xsrf_cookie,'password': password}
s.post(url, data=params)
After that s can be used to call the apis.