webscrapping ringcentral.com using mechanize

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shrini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> You wouldn't be trying to crack their customers account logins would
>> you? Coz it would be highly illegal if you were.
> 
> I am a valid customer of ringcentral.com
> 
> We have multiple accounts and need to automate some actions in
> ringcentral site.
> 
> still no clue on how to scrap ringcentral site.
> 
> need help.
> 
> Thanks.
> Shrinivasan
> 


Your original post has expired on my server but you were having problems
logging in IIRC. Just a hunch but are you following the examples on the
first page of the mechanize web site?..

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/

If so, do be aware that the code they show for setting a username and
password is NOT what you need to log into most websites. The method
shown is for "HTTPAuth" which works at the Apache server level, not the
website level.

Most sites implement their own login using standard HTML forms. You need
to find out what the form fields used for login are called (by looking
at the source code), populate them with your username and password then
submit the form. I don't know if mechanize can do all of that by itself,
I understand it is commonly used in conjunction with the BeautifulSoup
library.

Roger.