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How to configure syslog for logging in Python?

Is it possible to write a Python script for opening a browser and logging into a website? How could you do it?

  • If possible, please suggest some starting points. I have basic knowledge of Python and will be able to follow simple tutorials.

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    Yes, it's definitely possible. http://www.seleniumhq.org/ is perfect for what you're trying to do. There's even a http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ that will let you integrate with browsers like Firefox and Chrome. Here's an example of how you might log into Facebook. from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.support import ui from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys def page_is_loaded(driver): return driver.find_element_by_tag_name("body") != None driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/") wait = ui.WebDriverWait(driver, 10) wait.until(page_is_loaded) email_field = driver.find_element_by_id("email") email_field.send_keys("[email protected]") password_field = driver.find_element_by_id("pass") password_field.send_keys("password") password_field.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) With Selenium, you can automate pretty much anything you'd want to do with a web browser. Good luck!

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Depending upon what you want to do, you should check out: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mechanize/ http://www.seleniumhq.org/ http://scrapy.org/doc/

Navin Kabra

Use Selenium Webdriver with python http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp. Should do the trick for you

Tarang Mittal

As another guys already said, you can do that with Selenium. Selenium of version 1 was using JavaScript, now there is Selenium 2 which is using webdriver which is API implemented in browsers. With webdriver is action almost same like real user action, so it's much better for using for testing. I will just add one thing: if you want to use webdriver with Python, API is not very good and there is missing a lot of useful methods. So I did package webdriverwrapper, which provides a lot of improvements which can not be used in Selenium, because it just doesn't belong there. But it's still needed. For example filling of forms is much simpler, or you can easily download files, some shortcuts, working with windows/tabs, utilities for testing and more. Check it out: https://github.com/horejsek/python-webdriverwrapper

Michal Hořejšek

I used splinter library in Python to great success. I used the code given in the following blog to do an automated login to my institute's webpage https://pythonadventures.wordpress.com/tag/autologin/

Pavan Rohit

Another quick solution is mechanize lib in python as pointed by import mechanize import cookielib # Browser br = mechanize.Browser() # Cookie Jar cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar() br.set_cookiejar(cj) # Browser options br.set_handle_equiv(True) #br.set_handle_gzip(True) br.set_handle_redirect(True) br.set_handle_referer(True) br.set_handle_robots(False) br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1) # User-Agent br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')] r = br.open('<website you want to login>') html = r.read() br.select_form(nr=0) br.form['input_name_for_username']=username br.form['input_name_for_password']=password br.submit() # all done!

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