From the course: Web Scraping with Python
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- [Instructor] So, so far all the data we've scraped has been public. You don't need a user account or any particular credentials. You don't even need to pretend that you're not a bot. The websites are really just happy to accept anyone, right? But in this chapter, we're going to start looking at becoming something we're not. So whether that's a credentialed human user of a website, an actual web browser executing code, or someone sitting in front of a computer screen pushing buttons. And in this particular section, we're looking at logins. So as usual, our web scraping adventures are going to begin, not with scrapy code but with just looking at the website. So that's really important. We're going to look at the website, we're going to see what's going on with it. And that website is going to be a login page, pythonscraping.com/linkedin/cookies/login.html And if you look at this login, there are some little hints about what…
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