Logging in to google using python?

Question

I am fairly new to web programing but for the sake of it, I am trying to login to google account not using standard code but as a python application, but it is impossible to do so has anyone tried to this before? can anyone help?

Answer 1

I made a python class that handle google login and the is able to get any google service page that requires the user to be logged in:

class SessionGoogle:
    def __init__(self, url_login, url_auth, login, pwd):
        self.ses = requests.session()
        login_html = self.ses.get(url_login)
        soup_login = BeautifulSoup(login_html.content).find('form').find_all('input')
        my_dict = {}
        for u in soup_login:
            if u.has_attr('value'):
                my_dict[u['name']] = u['value']
        # override the inputs without login and pwd:
        my_dict['Email'] = login
        my_dict['Passwd'] = pwd
        self.ses.post(url_auth, data=my_dict)

    def get(self, URL):
        return self.ses.get(URL).text

The idea is to go to the login page GALX hidden input value and send it back to google + login and password. It requires modules requests and beautifulSoup

Example of use:

url_login = "https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin"
url_auth = "https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLoginAuth"
session = SessionGoogle(url_login, url_auth, "myGoogleLogin", "myPassword")
print session.get("http://plus.google.com")

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Although probably not exactly what you were looking for here I found some code from a similar post that did run from me.

import urllib2

def get_unread_msgs(user, passwd):
    auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
    auth_handler.add_password(
        realm='New mail feed',
        uri='https://mail.google.com',
        user='%[email protected]' % user,
        passwd=passwd
    )
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler)
    urllib2.install_opener(opener)
    feed = urllib2.urlopen('https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom')
    return feed.read()

print get_unread_msgs("put-username-here","put-password-here")

reference:
How to auto log into gmail atom feed with Python?