metacrawler.authentication.Authentication(self, url, xpath=None, **data)

Initialization arguments

• url: str Authentication page URL.

• xpath (optional): str XPath for extact form. By default extract first form tag.

• **data: keywords arguments Form data. For example, username=username, password=password. See form inputs name attributes.

Public attributes

• url: str Authentication page URL.

• xpath (optional): str XPath for extact form. By default extract first form tag.

• data: dict Passed form data.

Public methods

• get_form(self, page) Return form element.

• page: lxml.Element lxml reperesentation of authentication page.

• get_login_url(self, form) Return login url from form.

• form: lxml.Element lxml reperesentation of form.

• get_form_data(self, form) Return data for submit.

• form: lxml.Element lxml reperesentation of form.

• authentication(self, session=None) Return session after submit form (with cookies).

• session: requests.Session Using for authentication and save cookies.