I would like to login to my yahoo account from a script running on an ubuntu server. I have tried to use python with mechanize, but there is a flaw in my plan.
This is the code I have at the moment.
loginurl = "https://login.yahoo.com/config/login"
br = mechanize.Browser()
cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
br.set_cookiejar(cj)
br.set_handle_equiv(True)
br.set_handle_gzip(True)
br.set_handle_redirect(True)
br.set_handle_referer(True)
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1)
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')]
r = br.open(loginurl)
html = r.read()
br.select_form(nr=0)
br.form['login']='[mylogin]'
br.form['passwd']='[mypassword]'
br.submit()
print br.response().read()
The response I get is a Yahoo login page with bold red text reading. "Javascript must be enabled on your broswer" or something similar. There is a section on the mechanize docs that mentions pages that create cookies with JS, but alas the help page returns a HTTP 400 (just my luck)
Figuring out what the javascript does and then doing it manually sounds like a very difficult task. I would be quite willing to switch to any tool / language, so long as it can run on an ubuntu server. Even if it means using a different tool for the login and then passing the login cookie back to my python script. Any help / advice appreciated.
Update:
I do not wish to use the Yahoo APIs
I have also tried with scrapy, but I think the same issue occurs
My scrapy script
class YahooSpider(BaseSpider):
name = "yahoo"
start_urls = [
"https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.intl=us&.lang=en-US&.partner=&.last=&.src=&.pd=_ver%3D0%26c%3D%26ivt%3D%26sg%3D&pkg=&stepid=&.done=http%3a//my.yahoo.com"
]
def parse(self, response):
x = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
print x.select("//input/@value").extract()
return [FormRequest.from_response(response,
formdata={'login': '[my username]', 'passwd': '[mypassword]'},
callback=self.after_login)]
def after_login(self, response):
# check login succeed before going on
if response.url == 'http://my.yahoo.com':
return Request("[where i want to go next]",
callback=self.next_page, errback=self.error, dont_filter=True)
else:
print response.url
self.log("Login failed.", level=log.CRITICAL)
def next_page(sekf, response):
x = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
print x.select("//title/text()").extract()
The scrapy script just outputs "https://login.yahoo.com/config/login" ...... boo