Working out how to submit the login details expected by a server can be quite complex, as demonstrated by the previous example. Fortunately, there's a workaround for difficult websites--we can log in to the website manually using a web browser, and have our Python script load and reuse the cookies to be automatically logged in.
Some web browsers store their cookies in different formats, but Firefox and Chrome use an easy-to-access format we can parse with Python: a sqlite database.
SQLite is a very popular open-source SQL database. It can be easily installed on many platforms and comes pre-installed on Mac OSX. To download and install it on your operating system, check the Download page or simply search ...
