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Over the last few weeks I’ve been using Python to scrape the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Coronavirus page. Over time the page has evolved and even split into sub-pages which contain table date of cases, deaths and other statistics. I’ve decided to put my Python script on GitHub for public consumption. Initially when I had…

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I’ve been trying to learn some Python and have been tinkering with the requests module. Here is how I am able to log into a webpage, such as WordPress. import requests url = “https://techish.net/wp-login.php” redirect_to = “https://techish.net/wp-admin/” with requests.Session() as session: post = session.post(url, data={ ‘log’: ‘admin’, ‘pwd’: ‘password’, ‘redirect_to’: redirect_to }, allow_redirects=True) get =…

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