I'm trying to get the html from https://discord.com/channels/#me the problem i'm running into is that there has to be some kind of login procedure that i can't figure out how to do with requests. the only information i have to login is the token(my friend doesn't trust me with his login info), so I can't just login with the user and pass, I've attempted to figure out if i can change local storage of the site so i can put in the token but to no avail, any ideas?
The token you want to use to log into discord might have a time validity. (that's the token security) for example, you can use it for 1 hour an not after.
The easiest way to log you on discord would be to use Selenium in order to automate tasks of your browser.
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So I've been trying to make a program using Python that refreshes my Discord user token once every five minutes, but most of the tutorials online are about refreshing your Oauth2 access token, so I am currently very confused. Can anyone help me on the modules and functions to use, or are the Oauth2 access token and user token same things. Thanks!
Your Discord Token change when changing the password of your account so you will need to change your password every 5 minutes using some api calls and get the current token from another specific api call. you can find the api call urls and the data you need to post / get in the browser devconsole.
I am using django-allauth in my Django application, and my registration process is handled by Twitch, using allauth's Twitch provider. As of now, users can register on the website using Twitch, log out, and later log back in using Twitch with no problem. However, for making requests to some of Twitch API endpoints, I need the user's Twitch access token to be able to make requests on their behalf (such as following a channel, etc.).
On a very old github issues page I came upon a question regarding how to access the user's access token and the answer was to query the SocialToken model and find the logged-in user and the desired provider. But in my case my SocialToken model is empty and there are no tokens to be seen there, and I have no clue how to proceed to populate the model and add every new user's access token there, so that I can make requests on their behalf, given I have the correct scope.
Is there a way to add every new user's access token in SocialToken model? And is there a way to update the access token using the refresh token?
P.S. I'm thinking about having a celery task that makes a request to Twitch API every time a new user registers, and later refreshes the access token when it expires. But that seems like a hack, and not really a viable solution, plus, I need a user to be redirected to a certain callback URI as per Twitch API docs Maybe I'm just missing something.
From this question, the last responder seems to think that it is possible to use python to open a webpage, let me sign in manually, go through a bunch of menus then let the python parse the page when I get where I want. The website has a weird sign in procedure so using requests and passing a user name and password will not be sufficient.
However it seems from this question that it's not a possibility.
SO the question is, is it possible? if so, do you know of some example code out there?
The way to approach this problem is when you login normally have the developer tools next to you and see what the request is sending.
When logging in to bandcamp the XHR request that's being sent is the following:
From that response you can see that an identity cookie is being sent. That's probably how they identify that you are logged in. So when you've got that cookie set you would be authorized to view logged in pages.
So in your program you could login normally using requests, save the cookie in a variable and then apply the cookie to further requests using requests.
Of course login procedures and how this authorization mechanism works may differ, but that's the general gist of it.
So when do you actually need selenium? You need it if a lot of the things are being rendered by javascript. requests is only able to get the html. So if the menus and such is rendered with javascript you won't ever be able to see that information using requests.
I'm trying to do a Python program to follow some users based on the hastags they use on their posts. I know about the instagram package for Python, but there are a few things I don't understand about it.
Do I need a token for writing this program? If so, what exacly is a token? And when I run the get-token function it asks me to write the redirect URL, the requested scope, and the "Paste in code in query string after redirect: ", and I have no idea of that is this.
Thank you, JM
You need to understand OAuth 2 in order to appreciate what a token really means. But in essence the redirect URL is the place to where Instagram sends a user who wants to use your app after he approves of it. You will need to host your application. (How to do this?). Also Instagram has a page that helps developers get started here.
Once you are done with the above steps and have the token, you can do something like this,
from instagram.client import InstagramAPI
access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
api = InstagramAPI(access_token=access_token)
# Subscribe to all media tagged with 'fox'
api.create_subscription(object='tag', object_id='fox', aspect='media', callback_url='http://example.com/hook/instagram')
I'm using python without a server to deploy to. Im trying to test the accept payment flow for Paypal.
In the code after sending a POST request I store the result into a local file and then open this file using "webbrowser".
However I suspect that I am missing something here since once I log in as a user I'm not automatically redirected to authorize the transaction but rather just log in.
Now I suspect this is because once I hit the Payment API endpoint it is redirecting me to the login API with some parameters
http://www.paypal.com?hypotheticalredirecturl=etc
Now I am capturing the response i.e - the html of the paypal login page. However the whole
URL cannot be captured. Hence the part
hypotheticalredirecturl=etc
cannot be captured and I think that this is stopping the flow from going to the
authorization page after I log in as a user.
I think if I appended the "hypotheticalredirect" part to my webpage after opening it using "webbrowser" I might be able make the flow normal.
Does any one know of any way to capture the url of the response?
I tried looking into the page itself but I dont think its there.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ashwin
EDIT : Using urllib and urllib2. Should I be looking at httplib?