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I'm trying to write a Python script to let me log in to my fantasy football account at https://fantasy.premierleague.com/, but something is not quite right with my log in. When I login through my browser and check the details using Chrome developer tools, I find that the Request URL is https://users.premierleague.com/accounts/login/ and the form data sent is:
csrfmiddlewaretoken:[My token]
login:[My username]
password:[My password]
app:plfpl-web
redirect_uri:https://fantasy.premierleague.com/a/login
There are also a number of Request headers:
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:185
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie:[My cookies]
Host:users.premierleague.com
Origin:https://fantasy.premierleague.com
Referer:https://fantasy.premierleague.com/
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests:1
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
So I've written a short Python script using the request library to try to log in and navigate to a page as follows:
import requests
with requests.Session() as session:
url_home = 'https://fantasy.premierleague.com/'
html_home = session.get(url_home)
csrftoken = session.cookies['csrftoken']
values = {
'csrfmiddlewaretoken': csrftoken,
'login': <My username>,
'password': <My password>,
'app': 'plfpl-web',
'redirect_uri': 'https://fantasy.premierleague.com/a/login'
}
head = {
'Host':'users.premierleague.com',
'Referer': 'https://fantasy.premierleague.com/',
}
session.post('https://users.premierleague.com/accounts/login/',
data = values, headers = head)
url_transfers = 'https://fantasy.premierleague.com/a/squad/transfers'
html_transfers = session.get(url_transfers)
print(html_transfers.content)
On printing out the content of my post request, I get a HTML response code 500 error with:
b'\n<html>\n<head>\n<title>Fastly error: unknown domain users.premierleague.com</title>\n</head>\n<body>\nFastly error: unknown domain: users.premierleague.com. Please check that this domain has been added to a service.</body></html>'
If I remove the 'host' from my head dict, I get a HTML response code 405 error with:
b''
I've tried including various combinations of the Request headers in my head dict and nothing seems to work.
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With fpl you can easily use the Fantasy Premier League API in all your Python scripts, exactly how you expect it to work.
Just go to https://fantasy.premierleague.com, sign in with your account, go to 'Pick Team' then 'View Gameweek history'. You can find your id in the URL, right before the '/history'. Update: If you have been authenticated, you can simply hit https://fantasy.premierleague.com/api/me/ to get your profile information.
The following worked for me. I simply removed headers = head
session.post('https://users.premierleague.com/accounts/login/',
data = values)
I think you are trying to pick your team programmatically, like me. Your code got me started thanks.
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