I have looked at related answers and I haven't found something that quite works. I'm trying to scrape some fantasy baseball information from my team's CBS Sportsline page.
I want to post the login and password and then when I use the get command, see the data specific to my account.
Here's what I attempted:
import requests
myurl = 'http://bbroto.baseball.cbssports.com/transactions'
payload = {
'userid': '(my username)',
'Password': '(my password)',
'persistent': '1'}
session = requests.session()
p = requests.post(myurl, data=payload)
r = session.get(myurl)
print r.content
it gives me the generic page (as if I'm not logged in).
Here's what the form information looks like:
<form method="post" action="/login/index" name="login_form" id="login_form" >
<input type="hidden" name="dummy::login_form" id="dummy::login_form" value="1">
<input type="hidden" id="form::login_form" name="form::login_form" value="login_form">
<table id="table_login_form" class="formLayout"><input type="hidden"
value="http://bbroto.baseball.cbssports.com/transactions" name="xurl" id="xurl"><input
type="hidden" value="150" name="master_product" id="master_product"><input
type="hidden" value="cbssports" name="vendor" id="vendor"><tr id="row_userid"><td
align="right"></td>
<td><table class="fieldLayout"><tr><td><input type="text" value="Email or
ID" name="userid" id="userid" class="placeHolder" onfocus="if(this.value==defaultValue)
{this.value='';};" size="30" maxlength="264" data-field-placeholder="Email or ID" data
-field-required="1"></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr id="row_password"><td
align="right">
</td><td>
<table class="fieldLayout"><tr><td><input type="password"
value="Password" name="password" id="password" class="placeHolder"
onfocus="if(this.value==defaultValue){this.value='';};" size="30" maxlength="12" data-
field-placeholder="Password" data-field-required="1"></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr>
<td>
<!--label column--></td><td colspan="5"><input type="submit" id="submitButton"
value="Sign
In" class="formButton" om-event="User Utilities|Sign In - Member|Sign In"></td></tr>
</table><!--end FORM table-->
</form>
So it seems the relevant fields are userid and Password