web log in using python

[prashmohan]

Hello

I am new to python programming. I want to do a project which calculates the broadband usage for a particular ISP. How can i get the pages after logging into a website?

i understand that i will have to use the urllib2 library. I have been trying to read the docs, but however i could not figure out how to use it's functions.

How can i pass username, password to a website and get the logged in webpage? also this site works only for IE, so i will have to set the user string too.

an equivalent code in perl is
$req = HTTP::Request->new( POST => $redir_base . "serviceResults.jsp" );
$req->content_type( 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' );
$req->content( 'username=' . $username . '&queryDate=' . $year_month .
'&idAndName=&ispId=');

$res = $browser->request( $req );

How can I implement this in python?

Thank You

Prashanth

[teknomage1]

Looks like you need to instantiate an HTTPBasicAuthHandler object to set your user name and password and call its build_opener and install_opener methods as in the 4th example here http://docs.python.org/lib/urllib2-examples.html . Then instatiate an HTTPRequest object and use the add_header method to set your user string.

[snowstar]

Originally Posted by teknomage1

Looks like you need to instantiate an HTTPBasicAuthHandler object to set your user name and password and call its build_opener and install_opener methods as in the 4th example here http://docs.python.org/lib/urllib2-examples.html . Then instatiate an HTTPRequest object and use the add_header method to set your user string.