无法登录我的学校网站

Question

I am trying to use a python script (specifically requests) for logging into my university account and having the program do what I need it to do. I used the following code to try logging into the website:

import requests
import time

url = 'https://myschool.edu/'

next_url = 'https://mynextpage.edu/'
login_data = {"j_username":'input username here', "j_password":'input password here'}


with requests.Session() as s:
    s.get(url)
    p = s.post(url, data=login_data)
    # print the html returned or something more intelligent to see if it's a successful login page.
    print p.text
    time.sleep(40)

    # An authorised request.
    r = s.get(next_url)
    print r.text

When I have p.text print out, all I see is the html to the original login page. I don't understand what I am typing wrong about this. Thanks for all your help!!

Answer 1

1. Goes with http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/ , and let the browser handle most of the heavy liftings.
2. If you indeed want to interact with the server directly in Python, you may end up dealing with session/cookie/credential kind of stuff, which could be a hassle.

1 feels like programming while 2 is more like hacking. ;)