Python requests example - auth cookie and download file

Python requests example

Naming file

get_file.py

import requests

BASE_URL = 'http://example.com'
AUTH_URL = BASE_URL + '/login'
CREDENTIALS = {'username': 'user', 'password': 'qwerty'}

session = requests.Session()
session.post(AUTH_URL, data=CREDENTIALS)
print(session.cookies)

file_url = BASE_URL + '/files/name.txt'
resp = session.get(file_url, stream=True)

if resp.status_code == 200:
    filename ='/tmp/myfile.txt'
    with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
        for chunk in resp.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):
            if chunk:
                f.write(chunk)

This is a very basic case that I wrote here. Moodle might require Javascript to be executed for example. I'd suggest using something like Selenium for such cases.