slashdot_login.py

import requests
from requests import get
import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.error import HTTPError
from urllib.request import urlopen


login_url = 'https://slashdot.org/my/login'
scraping_url = 'https://slashdot.org'

class SlashDot:

   def actions():
      username = input("Enter username : ")
      password = input("Enter password : ")

      if username and password:
         session = requests.Session()
         per_session = session.post(login_url, data={'unickname': username, 'upasswd': password})

         if per_session:
            try:
               BeautifulSoup(session.get(login_url).content, 'html.parser')
               response = get(scraping_url)
               html_soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
               articles = html_soup.find_all('article', class_ = 'article')

               articles_data = []
               for article in articles[:3]:
                  data = {
                     "headline": article.header.h2.find('span', class_ = 'story-title').a.text,
                     "author": article.header.find('div', class_ = 'details').find('span', class_ = "story-byline").find('a'),
                     "date": article.header.find('div', class_ = 'details').find('span', class_ = "story-byline").time.text
                  }
                  articles_data.append(data)

               if len(articles_data) > 0:
                  for article in articles_data:
                     print(article)
               else:
                  print("articles not found!")

            except HTTPError as error:
               print(error)
      else:
         print("username and password is required")

SlashDot.actions()