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Python Web Scraping. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786462589
Pages 220 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Katharine Jarmul Katharine Jarmul
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Registering an account

In chapter 6, Interacting with forms, we logged in to the example website using a manually created account, but we skipped the account creation part because the registration form requires passing a CAPTCHA:

Note that each time the form is loaded, a different CAPTCHA image will be shown. To understand what the form requires, we can reuse the parse_form() function developed in the preceding chapter.

>>> import requests
>>> REGISTER_URL = 'http://example.webscraping.com/user/register'
>>> session = requests.Session()
>>> html = session.get(REGISTER_URL)
>>> form = parse_form(html.content)
>>> form
{'_formkey': '1ed4e4c4-fbc6-4d82-a0d3-771d289f8661',
'_formname': 'register',
'_next': '/',
'email': '',
'first_name': '',
'last_name...
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