How to scrape a password protected website?
Sacha Dumay
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My steps to Scrape a Password-Protected Website:
1) Capture the HTML form elements: username ID, password ID, and login button class.
2) Use a tool like requests or Selenium to automate the login.
3) Automate login in JavaScript: fill username, wait, fill password, wait, click login.
4) Store session cookies for authentication.
5) Continue scraping the authenticated pages.
I've built a beta API for this use case https://www.scrapewebapp.com/. If you have any scraping questions, let me know! 😊
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