Scraping Data From the Web Using Requests and BeautifulSoup, Part 2

Jordan P. Raychev
Python in Plain English
3 min readJan 29, 2021

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In a previous tutorial I have shown you how you could use requests and BeautifulSoup libraries to scrape data from a web page. In this article, we are going a step further and will try to retrieve an information that is behind a login.

On top of that the web application we are going to be using requires CRSF token which makes our job a little bit harder. CSRF for short or Cross-Site Request Forgery is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to induce users to perform actions that they do not intend to…

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