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Scraping an internal web page

I have to scrape an internal web page of my organization. If I use Beautiful soap I get
"Unauthorized access"
I don't want to put my username/password in the source code because it will be shared across collegues.
If I open the same web url using Firefox It doesn't not ask me to login, the only problem is when I make the same request using python script.
Is there a way to share the same session used by firefox with a python script?
I think my authentication is with my PC because if I log off deleting all cookies When i re-enter I because logged in automatically. Do you know why with my python script this doesn’t not happen?

When you use the browser to login to your organization, you provide your credentials and the server returns a cookie tied to your organization's domain. This cookie has an expiration and allows to use navigate your organization's site without having to login as long as the cookie is valid.
You can read about cookies here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
Your website scraper does not need to store your credentials. First delete the cookies then, using your browser's developer tools, you can (look at the network tab):
Figure out if your organization uses a separate auth end point
If it's not evident, then you might ask the IT department
Use the auth endpoint to get a cookie using credentials passed in
See how this cookie is used by the system (look at the HTTP request/response headers)
Use this cookie to scrape the website
Share your code freely - if someone needs to scrape the website then they can either pass in their credentials, or use a curl command to get/set a valid cookie header

1) After authenticating in your Firefox browser, make sure to get the cookie key/value.
2) Use that data in the code below :
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
browser_cookies = {'your_cookie_key':'your_cookie_value'}
s = requests.Session()
r = s.get(your_url, cookies=browser_cookies)
bsoup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
The requests.Session() is for persistence.
One more tips, you could also call your script like that :
python3 /path/to/script/script.py cookies_key cookies_value
Then, get the two values with sys module. The code will be :
import sys
browser_cookies = {sys.argv[1]:sys.argv[2]}

Retrieve awesomebox.io scan page content with python-requests

i'm trying to retrieve the page content from https://www.awesomebox.io/scan
But before I can do that need to be logged in. At the moment I still get the login page content. Thats because it redirects because im not logged in.
Anybody know how to get the scan page content with python-requests?
I tried multiple requests authentication methods.
My code so far:
import requests
session = requests.session()
loginURL = 'http://www.awesomebox.io/login'
payload = {'username': '******','password': '******'}
session.post(loginURL, data=payload)
scanURL = "http://awesomebox.io/scan"
scanpage = session.get(scanURL)
print scanpage.content

I don't have an account with awesomebox, so therefore don't know exactly. But nowadays a login on websites is more sophisticated and secure than a simple post of username and password.
To find out, you can do a manual login and trace the web traffic in the developer mode of the browser (e.g. F12 for MSIE or Edge) and store it in a .har file. There you can (hopefully) see, how the Login procedure is implemented and build the same sequence in your requests session.
Sometimes there is a hidden field in the form (e.g. "lt" for login ticket) that has been populated via js by the page before. Sometimes it's even more complex, if a secret login in run via Ajax in the Background. In this case you even see nothing in the F12 view and have to dig into the js scripts.

Thank you, I noticed i forgot a hidden parameter.
I added the csrfmiddlewaretoken.

Figuring out url made in ajax post

At this link when hover over any row, then there is an image box which says "i" you can click to get extra data. Then navigate to Lines History. Where is that information coming from? I can't find the URL that is connected with that.
I used dev tools in chrome, and found out that there's an ajax post being made:
Request URL:http://www.sbrforum.com/ajax/?a=[SBR.Odds.Modules]OddsEvent_GetLinesHistory
Form Data: UserId=0&Sport=basketball&League=NBA&EventId=259672&View=LH&SportsbookId=238&DefaultBookId=238&ConsensusBookId=19&PeriodTypeId=&StartDate=2014-03-24&MatchupLink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sbrforum.com%2Fnba-basketball%2Fmatchups%2F20140324-602%2F&Key=de2f9e1485ba96a69201680d1f7bace4&theme=default
but when I try to visit this url in browser I got Invalid Ajax Call -- from host:
Any idea?

Like you say, it's probably an HTTP POST request.
When you navigate to the URL with the browser, the browser issues a GET request, without all the form data.
Try curl, wget, or the javascript console in your browser to do a POST.

Python: Connecting to a private page using urllib

I am trying to connect to a private page were you have to be logged in to view it using urllib. When I try to connect to the page I just get redirected, to the login page.
Is there a way to log in with urllib or use cookies from my webrowser or something like that?
I have tried to figure out how to do it myself and have failed.
Any help on this would be nice.

If your page uses HTML authentication, use HTTPBasicAuthHandler.
If your page uses authentication by form, use POST request to send login form and store the cookies using cookielib.

Look for Authentication under http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html#examples

how to find out whether website is using cookies or http based authentication

I am trying to automate files download via a webserver. I plan on using wget or curl or python urllib / urllib2.
Most solutions use wget and urllib and urllib2. They all talk of HHTP based authentication and cookie based authentication. My problem is I dont know which one is used in the website that stores my data.
Here is the interaction with the site:
Normally I login to site http://www.anysite.com/index.cgi?
I get a form with a login and password. I type in both and hit return.
The url stays as http://www.anysite.com/index.cgi? during the entire interaction. But now I have a list of folders and files
If I click on a folder or file the URL changes to http://shamrockstructures.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?page=download&file=%2Fhome%2Fjanysite%2Fpublic_html%2Fuser_data%2Fuserareas%2Ffile.tar.bz2
And the browser offers me a chance to save the file
I want to know how to figure out whether the site is using HTTP or cookie based authentication. After which I am assuming I can use cookielib or urllib2 in python to connect to it, get the list of files and folders and recursively download everything while staying connected.
p.S: I have tried the cookie cutter ways to connect via wget and wget --http-user "uname" --http-password "passwd" http://www.anysite.com/index.cgi? , but they only return the web form back to me.

If you log in using a Web page, the site is probably using cookie-based authentication. (It could technically use HTTP basic auth, by embedding your credentials in the URI, but this would be a dumb thing to do in most cases.) If you get a separate, smallish dialog with a user name and password field (like this one), it is using HTTP basic authentication.
If you try to log in using HTTP basic auth, and get back the login page, as is happening to you, this is a certain indication that the site is not using HTTP basic auth.
Most sites use cookie-based authentication these days. To do this with an HTTP cilent such as urllib2, you will need to do an HTTP POST of the fields in the login form. (You may need to actually request the login form first, as a site could include a cookie that you need to even log in, but usually this is not necessary.) This should return a "successfully logged in" page that you can test for. Save the cookies you get back from this request. When making the next request, include these cookies. Each request you make may respond with cookies, and you need to save those and send them again with the next request.
urllib2 has a function called a "cookie jar" which will automatically handle the cookies for you as you send requests and receive Web pages. That's what you want.

You can use pycurl like this:
import pycurl
COOKIE_JAR = 'cookiejar' # file to store the cookies
LOGIN_URL = 'http://www.yoursite.com/login.cgi'
USER_FIELD = 'user' # Name of the element in the HTML form
USER = 'joe'
PASSWD_FIELD = 'passwd' # Name of the element in the HTML form
PASSWD = 'MySecretPassword'
def read(html):
"""Read the body of the response, with posible
future html parsing and re-requesting"""
print html
com = pycurl.Curl()
com.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, read)
com.setopt(pycurl.COOKIEJAR, COOKIE_JAR)
com.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, 1) # follow redirects
com.setopt(pycurl.POST, 1)
com.setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDS, '%s=%s;%s=%s'%(USER_FIELD, USER,
PASSWD_FIELD, PASSWD))
com.setopt(pycurl.URL, LOGIN_URL )
com.perform()
Plain pycurl it may seam very "primitive" (with the limited setopt approach),
but it gets the job done, and handle pretty well the cookies with the cookie jar option.

AFAIK cookie based authentication is only used once you have logged in successfully atleast ONCE. You can try disabling storing cookies from that domain by changing your browser settings, if you are still able to download files that it should be a HTTP based authentication.
Try doing a equivalent GET request for the (possibly POST) login request that is probably happening right now for login. Use firebug or fiddler to see the login request that is sent.
Also note if there is some javascript code which is returning you a different output, based on your useragent string or some other parameter.
See if httplib, mechanize helps.