mode.de login script

mde_login.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import cookielib
from urllib2 import HTTPCookieProcessor, build_opener 
from urllib import urlencode
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

# the login data
login_data = {
        'login_username': u'USERNAME',
        'login_password': u'PASSWORD',
        'login_lifetime': u'31536000',
}

# we need a cookie jar to hold the cookies and a opener that uses this jar
jar = cookielib.CookieJar()
cookie_handler = HTTPCookieProcessor(jar)
opener = build_opener(cookie_handler)

# post data must be encoded before submitting (as iso-8859-15)
login_data_encoded = dict([k, v.encode('iso-8859-15')] for k, v in login_data.items())

# submit login data
res = opener.open('http://login.mods.de/', urlencode(login_data_encoded))

# search for the iframe that has the SSO.php script for forum.mods.de...
soup = BeautifulSoup(res.read())
for iframe in soup.findAll('iframe'):
        sso = iframe['src']
        if 'forum.mods.de' in sso:
                # ... and make a request to this page
                opener.open(sso)

# now you are logged in
res = opener.open('http://forum.mods.de/bb/index.php')
print res.read()