Our pixstar album frame stopped automatically refreshing (it's meant to pull our PhotoRSS feed every 6 hours), so I wrote a script to click the "refresh" button.

update_pixstar.py

"""
1. GET 
   extract csrf token <input type='hidden' name='csrfmiddlewaretoken' value='1RNvCJoYdwKwtoOAd7kM73sBKJxhzN50' />
2. POST https://www.pix-star.com/accounts/login/
    next:/
    username:...
    password:...
    csrfmiddlewaretoken:1RNvCJoYdwKwtoOAd7kM73sBKJxhzN50
- keep the cookies
3. POST album ID to https://www.pix-star.com/album/is2/downloading2/
"""

PIXSTAR_USERNAME = ''
PIXSTAR_PASSWORD = ''
ALBUM_ID = '1350472'

import requests
import re
import time

csrf_re = re.compile("<input type='hidden' name='csrfmiddlewaretoken' value='(\w+)' />")

def login_and_refresh():
    s = requests.Session() # To preserve cookies
    response = s.get('https://www.pix-star.com/')
    csrf_token = csrf_re.search(response.content).group(1)

    time.sleep(1)

    # Perform the login
    response = s.post('https://www.pix-star.com/accounts/login/', {
        'next': '/',
        'username': PIXSTAR_USERNAME,
        'password': PIXSTAR_PASSWORD,
        'csrfmiddlewaretoken': csrf_token,
    })

    time.sleep(1)

    # Hit the refresh button
    response = s.post('https://www.pix-star.com/album/is2/downloading2/', {
        'album_id': ALBUM_ID,
        'old_number': '100', # Required argument for some reason
    })
    print response.content