Python Web Scraping Cookbook

How to do it

We proceed with the recipe as follows:

1. If you examine the HTML for the sign-in page, you will have noticed the following form code:

<form action="/Account/Login" method="post"><div> <label for="Username">Username</label> <input type="text" id="Username" name="Username" value="" /> <span class="field-validation-valid" data-valmsg-for="Username" data-valmsg-replace="true"></span></div><div> <label for="Password">Password</label> <input type="password" id="Password" name="Password" /> <span class="field-validation-valid" data-valmsg-for="Password" data-valmsg-replace="true"></span> </div>  <input type="hidden" name="returnUrl" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Login"/> <input name="__RequestVerificationToken" type="hidden" ...