Question

I am working on an app where a string is taken as an input and the program automatically opens a browser and searches for the string.The problem I am facing is since I am behind a proxy that requires authentication,before the search results come an alert window opens asking for username and password… which I don’t want the user to fill and waste his time. instead if this was stored somewhere I could make my program fill this authentication detail automatically.. Is this possible?

Thank you

Answer 1

Sounds like the page uses HTTP authentication. If you don’t need to actually open a real browser, you could search for the string in python.

requests makes working with HTTP authentication really easy:

import requests

response = requests.get(url, auth=(username, password))
# search for your string in response.contents