How do i to a website using requests library, i watched a lot of tutorials but they seem to have a 302 POST request in their networks tab in inspector. I see a lot of GET requests in my tab when i login. A friend of mine said cookies but i am really a beginner i don't know how to login.
Also, i would like to know the range from which i can use this library or any helpful source of information from where i can begin learning this library.
import requests
r = requests.get("https://example.com")
I want to POST request, the same friend told me that i would require API access of that website to proceed further is it true?
Depending on the site that you are trying to log in with it may be necessary to log in via a chrome browser (selenium) and from there extract and save the cookies for further injection and use within the requests module.
To extract cookies from selenium and save them to a json file use:
cookies = driver.get_cookies()
with open('file_you_want_to_save_the_cookies_to.json', 'w') as f:
json.dump(cookies, f)
To then use these cookies in the request module use:
cookies = {
'cookie_name' : 'cookie_value'
}
with requests.Session() as s:
r = s.get(url, headers=headers, cookies=cookies)
I could help further if you mention what site you are trying to do this on