Entering username & password automatically using urllib.urlopen

[Diez B. Roggisch]

rodrigo schrieb:
> I am trying to retrieve a password protected page using:
> 
> get = urllib.urlopen('http://password.protected.url"').read()
> 
> While doing this interactively, I'm asked for  the username, then the
> password at the terminal.
> Is there any way to do this non-interactively? To hardcode the user/
> pass into the script so I can get the page automatically?
> 
> (This is not a cracking attempt, I am trying to retrieve a page I have
> legitimate access to, just doing it automatically when certain
> conditions are met.)

Is that HTTP-auth? Then this might help:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml

BTW, use urllib2.

Diez