I'm trying to use NodeJS
to scrape a website that requires a login by POST
.
Then once I'm logged in I can access a separate webpage by GET
.
The first problem right now is logging in. I've tried to use request
to POST
the login information, but the response I get does not appear to be logged in.
exports.getstats = function (req, res) {
request.post({url : requesturl, form: lform}, function(err, response, body) {
res.writeHeader(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"});
res.write(body);
res.end();
});
};
Here I'm just forwarding the page I get back, but the page I get back still shows the login form, and if I try to access another page it says I'm not logged in.
I think I need to maintain the client side session and cookie data, but I can find no resources to help me understand how to do that.
As a followup I ended up using zombiejs to get the functionality I needed