login_shanbay

login_shanbay.py

import urllib2
import urllib
import re

from time import sleep
from cookielib import CookieJar

r = "name='csrfmiddlewaretoken'\svalue='(.+)'\s/"
r_compile = re.compile(r)

httpHandler = urllib2.HTTPHandler(debuglevel=1)
httpsHandler = urllib2.HTTPSHandler(debuglevel=1)	

urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(httpHandler, httpsHandler))

def login_shanbay(username, password):
	cj = CookieJar()
	opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
	page = opener.open("http://www.shanbay.com/accounts/login/").read()
	crsf_token = r_compile.search(page).groups()[0]

	formdata = { "username" : username, 
				 "password" : password, 
				 "login"    : "", 
				 "continue" : "home", 
				 "u"        : 1,
				 "csrfmiddlewaretoken": crsf_token}
	data_encoded = urllib.urlencode(formdata)

	response = opener.open("http://www.shanbay.com/accounts/login/", data_encoded)
	content = response.read()

	response = opener.open("http://www.shanbay.com/api/word/blue")
	explan = response.read()
	return json.loads(explan)