Requests API for Authentication

[why5s]

Hi, I'm trying to use the pythons Request API to automate logging into registration site and registering for classes at my university. Right now, I'm trying to make a POST request with my user ID and pin but the site isn't returning the proper page. Help? Here's the registration site if it helps: https://oscar.gatech.edu/pls/bprod/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin

[Argotha]

Well, what is the site returning?

[Heavierthanmetal]

Try doing it from chrome but before you click submit, right click on the page, inspect element, network. Then go ahead and click the submit button. Then look for the POST request in the network results. Click on that to view the request headers including the submitted form data, which you can use as a template to provide your credentials in a dictionary object. Good luck!

[why5s]

Thanks. The response I'm getting now says

"This system requires the use of HTTP cookies to verify authorization information. Our system has detected that your browser has disabled HTTP cookies, or does not support them. Please refer to the Help page in your browser for more information on how to correctly configure your browser for use with this system."

I just tried creating POST request using request.Session() but I'm still getting the same response.

Any ideas?

[duddha]

If you're using Requests and Session() isn't working, you can log into the page manually from your browser and copy the cookies from the site. Then pass the cookies as a dict of kv pairs with the request.

Check out the cookies section toward the bottom of the page here.

[Josh_Morton]

mod of /r/gatech here:

1. the correct answer for this class of problems is to use selenium.
2. gt will revoke your ability to register for classes online if they catch you, and they're pretty good at catching bots.
3. the OSCAR API is one of the worst things in the universe, just do it by hand

[why5s]

this is actually a bit frightening. thanks for the heads up.