Python - Problems using mechanize to log into a difficult website
- by user1781599
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I am trying to log in to betfair.com by using mechanize. I have tried several ways but it always fail.
This is the code I have developed so far, can anyone help me to identify what is wrong with it and how I can improve it to log into my betfair account?
Thanks,
import cookielib
import urllib
import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import mechanize
from mechanize import Browser
import re
bf_username_name = "username"
bf_password_name = "password"
bf_form_name = "loginForm"
bf_username = "xxxxx"
bf_password = "yyyyy"
urlLogIn = "http://www.betfair.com/"
accountUrl = "https://myaccount.betfair.com/account/home?rlhm=0&" # This url I will use to verify if log in has been successful
br = mechanize.Browser(factory=mechanize.RobustFactory())
br.addheaders = [("User-Agent","Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.90 Safari/537.1")]
br.open(urlLogIn)
br.select_form(nr=0)
print br.form
br.form[bf_username_name] = bf_username
br.form[bf_password_name] = bf_password
print br.form #just to check username and psw have been recorded correctly
responseSubmit = br.submit()
response = br.open(accountUrl)
text_file = open("LogInResponse.html", "w")
text_file.write(responseSubmit.read()) #this file should show the home page with me logged in, but it show home page as if I was not logged it
text_file.close()
text_file = open("Account.html", "w")
text_file.write(response.read()) #this file should show my account page, but it should a pop up with an error
text_file.close()
