403 Error Logging into Github via Python Using urllib.request

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I'm getting the following error trying to log into Github via urllib.request using Python 3.4.2:

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

My assumption is I'm not mirroring a real user (tried doing so by adding a user-agent). I could use Selenium with PhantomJS but it's a bit too clunky and slow.

Yes, I could use Github's API, but the point is to learn how to log into a site using urllib, and I just wanted to try Github.

Here is the code:

import urllib.request
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib.parse


    #Login Info

    user_name = 'USERNAME'
    password = 'PASSWORD'

    #Request the login page to pull the auth token

    soup = urllib.request.urlopen('http://ift.tt/1i4HFM7')
    soup_content = soup.read()
    pretty_soup = BeautifulSoup(soup_content)

    #Request the auth token

    for tags in pretty_soup.findAll("meta", {'name': 'csrf-token'}):
        auth_token = tags['content']

    #Post login and auth token

    url = 'http://ift.tt/1kQnj8Y'
    user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.76 Safari/537.36'
    values = {'utf8' : '%E2%9C%93',
              'authenticity_token' : auth_token,
              'login' : user_name,
              'password' : password }

    headers = { 'User-Agent' : user_agent }

    data = urllib.parse.urlencode(values)
    binary_data = data.encode('UTF-8')
    req = urllib.request.Request(url, binary_data, headers)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
    the_page = response.read()
    pretty_page = BeautifulSoup(the_page)

    print(pretty_page)

asked 4 mins ago

ethanenglish

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403 Error Logging into Github via Python Using urllib.request