How to apply the user's HTML environment in a Python programme?

[BobAalsma]

Op vrijdag 21 september 2012 15:23:14 UTC+2 schreef Joel Goldstick het volgende:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:57 AM, BobAalsma wrote:
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> > I'd like to write a programme that will be offered as a web service (Django), in which the user will point to a specific URL and the programme will be used to read the text of that URL.
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> > This text can be behind a username/password, but for several reasons, I don't want to know those.
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> > So I would like to set up a situation where the user logs in (if/when appropriate), points out the URL to my programme and my programme would then be able to read that particular text.
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> > I'm aware this may sound fishy. It should not be: I want the user to be fully aware and in control of this process.
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> > Any thoughts on how to approach this?
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> There are several python modules to get web pages.  urllib, urllib2
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> and another called requests.
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> (http://kennethreitz.com/requests-python-http-module.html)  Check
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> > Best regards,
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> > Bob
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> Joel Goldstick

Thanks, Joel, yes, but as far as I'm aware these would all require the Python programme to have the user's username and password (or "credentials"), which I wanted to avoid.