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Login through coding (csrf token + cookies )
const request = require('request-promise');
const cheerio = require('cheerio');
(async () => {
console.log(`Initial request to get the csrf_token value..`);
let initialRequest = await request({
uri:'http://quotes.toscrape.com/login',
method: 'GET',
gzip: true,
resolveWithFullResponse: true
});
/* Parsing the cookies */
let cookie = initialRequest.headers['set-cookie'].map(value => value.split(';')[0]).join(' ');
let $ = cheerio.load(initialRequest.body);
let csrfToken = $('input[name="csrf_token"]').val();
console.log(`POST Request to login on the form`);
try {
let loginRequest = await request({
uri: 'http://quotes.toscrape.com/login',
method: 'POST',
gzip: true,
headers: {
'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3',
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
'Accept-Language': 'en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8',
'Cache-Control': 'max-age=0',
'Connection': 'keep-alive',
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Host': 'quotes.toscrape.com',
'Origin': 'http://quotes.toscrape.com',
'Referer': 'http://quotes.toscrape.com/login',
'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests': '1',
'Cookie': cookie,
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36'
},
form: {
'csrf_token': csrfToken,
'username': 'admin',
'password': 'admin'
},
resolveWithFullResponse: true
})
} catch(response) {
/* Parsing the cookies */
cookie = response.response.headers['set-cookie'].map(value => value.split(';')[0]).join(' ');
}
console.log(`LoggedIn Request`);
let loggedInResponse = await request({
uri: 'http://quotes.toscrape.com/',
method: 'GET',
gzip: true,
headers: {
'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3',
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
'Accept-Language': 'en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8',
'Cache-Control': 'max-age=0',
'Connection': 'keep-alive',
'Host': 'quotes.toscrape.com',
'Origin': 'http://quotes.toscrape.com',
'Referer': 'http://quotes.toscrape.com/login',
'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests': '1',
'Cookie': cookie,
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36'
}
});
debugger;
})();
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