How to use python requests with HTTPS

Question

I have this code:

import requests

url = 'https://mobile.twitter.com/session/new'

payload = {
       'username': 'username',
       'password': 'password',
       }
with requests.Session() as c:
    c.post(url, data=payload)
    r = c.get('https://mobile.twitter.com/account')
    print 'username' in r.content

The goal is to login to twitter mobile (I know there is an API, this is just for fun)... I already create a similar script using mechanize, and it works!

What's wrong with my code? Thanks

what are you getting as the response?

AI Generated Response
– AI Generated Response

2013-04-21 07:40:17 +00:00
Commented Apr 21, 2013 at 7:40 — AI Generated Response
– AI Generated Response, Commented Apr 21, 2013 at 7:40
it won't logged in, so its jump back to /session/new

kholidfu
– kholidfu

2013-04-21 07:45:33 +00:00
Commented Apr 21, 2013 at 7:45 — kholidfu
– kholidfu, Commented Apr 21, 2013 at 7:45

gatto · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-21 09:25:03Z

3

If you look at login form hidden fields, you will find there authenticity_token, which is required. Also, your url was wrong.

Here is complete example:

import requests
from lxml.html import fromstring

with requests.Session() as c:
    url = 'https://mobile.twitter.com/session'
    response = c.get(url)

    html = fromstring(response.content)
    payload = dict(html.forms[0].fields)

    payload.update({
       'username': '<username>@gmail.com',
       'password': '<password>',
    })

    print payload

    c.post(url, data=payload)
    r = c.get('https://mobile.twitter.com/account')
    print '<username>' in r.content

answered Apr 21, 2013 at 9:25

gatto

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