python http requests; browser not detected

Question

I want to login to my account with the following structure:

import requests
session=requests.Session()
resp=session.get('https://mywebsite.com/login')
cont=resp.content
post_data={'user':'username', 'pass':'password'}
post_response=session.post(url='https://mywebsite.com/login', data=post_data}
print cont

The following error occurs:

Browser Error: Your browser version looks incompatible

Answer 1

Change your User-Agent to something that the website thinks is compatible. You can do it like this,

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0'
}
r = session.post('https://mywebsite.com/login', data=post_data, headers=headers)

Answer 2

You have to send a correct User-Agent, for example:

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0',
}

post_response=session.post(url='https://mywebsite.com/login', data=post_data, headers=headers)