How to Login to a website and hit any url and get the response by using Python [duplicate]

Question

I am logging into website by using below code...

payload = {'user': 'apple', 'password': 'banana'}
loginurl = 'http://12.345.678.910:8000/login'
r = requests.post(loginurl, data=payload)
data = r.json()
print(data)

As a response of above code i am getting output as below

{u'message': u'Logged in'}

Now in that website i am trying to get some response by using below get request...

DataURL = "http://12.345.678.910:8000/api/datasources/proxy/1/query?db=AB_CDE&q=SELECT%20sum(%22count%22)%20FROM%20%22gatling%22%20WHERE%20%22status%22%20%3D%20%27ok%27%20AND%20%22simulation%22%20%3D~%20%2Fabdokd-live*%2F%20AND%20time%20%3E%201544491800000ms%20and%20time%20%3C%201544495400000ms%20GROUP%20BY%20%22script%22&epoch=ms"
Datar = requests.get(url = DataURL)
resposne = Datar.json()
print(resposne)

As a response of above code i am getting below...

{u'message': u'Unauthorized'}

Which is not expected as in the previous step i already logged into the website. Can someone help me to correct my code?

Answer 1

You will probably need to look into how the authentication mechanism works in HTTP. It's most likely that your server is returning either a cookie or some sort of other identification header. Cookies are easiest because the browser will (to a first approximation) automatically return the cookies it gets form a server when making further requests. Your existing code isn't doing that.

Since you are using the requests library you should look at the answer to this question, which might shed some light on the problem.