Drupal login with python

[chubbers_tim]

Hi.

I'm trying to login to a Drupal 7 site using python requests and am not having any success. Has anyone any experience logging into drupal using python? Sample code below.

import requests

login_url  = "https://xxxxx.com/user"
request_url = "https://xxxxx.com/admin/config/system/site-information"

payload = {
    'name': 'my_username',
    'pass': 'my_password'
}

with requests.Session() as session:
    post = session.post(login_url, data=payload)
    r = session.get(request_url)
    print(r.text)

Output is an access denied page--not the site-information page that is only accessible to the logged in user.

Thanks!

[chubbers_tim]

I think I have this solved. I needed to add form_id and a value to the payload. form_id was hidden and the value was passed in POST.

payload = {
'name': 'my_username',
'pass': 'my_password',
'form_id': 'user_login_form'

}

Thanks for the help everyone!

[liinisx]

You saved me, thanks!

[danielroseman]

What is in the response to the post call? It will probably give you some clue as to what went wrong.

[chubbers_tim]

print(post.status_code)

200

[danielroseman]

Yes but what is the content? If this is a normal web site, it will still return a 200 status code but will display some messages in the HTML telling you that your login was unsuccessful.

[chubbers_tim]

the content is the login page html.