>>> import requests
>>> login_data =  {'formPosted':'1', 'login_email':'me@example.com', 'password':'pw'}
>>> r = requests.post('https://localhost/login.py', login_data)
>>>
>>> r.text
u'You are being redirected <a href="profilePage?_ck=1349394964">here</a>'
>>> r.cookies
{'session_id_myapp': '127-0-0-1-825ff22a-6ed1-453b-aebc-5d3cf2987065'}
>>>
>>> r2 = requests.get('https://localhost/profile_data.json', ...)

s = requests.session()

s.post('https://localhost/login.py', login_data)
#logged in! cookies saved for future requests.
r2 = s.get('https://localhost/profile_data.json', ...)
#cookies sent automatically!
#do whatever, s will keep your cookies intact :)

import urllib2
import urllib
from cookielib import CookieJar

cj = CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
# input-type values from the html form
formdata = { "username" : username, "password": password, "form-id" : "1234" }
data_encoded = urllib.urlencode(formdata)
response = opener.open("https://page.com/login.php", data_encoded)
content = response.read()

>>> url = 'http://httpbin.org/cookies'
>>> cookies = dict(cookies_are='working')

>>> r = requests.get(url, cookies=cookies)
>>> r.text
'{"cookies": {"cookies_are": "working"}}'

import pickle
import datetime
import os
from urllib.parse import urlparse
import requests

class MyLoginSession:
    """
    a class which handles and saves login sessions. It also keeps track of proxy settings.
    It does also maintine a cache-file for restoring session data from earlier
    script executions.
    """
    def __init__(self,
                 loginUrl,
                 loginData,
                 loginTestUrl,
                 loginTestString,
                 sessionFileAppendix = '_session.dat',
                 maxSessionTimeSeconds = 30 * 60,
                 proxies = None,
                 userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.1',
                 debug = True):
        """
        save some information needed to login the session

        you'll have to provide 'loginTestString' which will be looked for in the
        responses html to make sure, you've properly been logged in

        'proxies' is of format { 'https' : 'https://user:pass@server:port', 'http' : ...
        'loginData' will be sent as post data (dictionary of id : value).
        'maxSessionTimeSeconds' will be used to determine when to re-login.
        """
        urlData = urlparse(loginUrl)

        self.proxies = proxies
        self.loginData = loginData
        self.loginUrl = loginUrl
        self.loginTestUrl = loginTestUrl
        self.maxSessionTime = maxSessionTimeSeconds
        self.sessionFile = urlData.netloc + sessionFileAppendix
        self.userAgent = userAgent
        self.loginTestString = loginTestString
        self.debug = debug

        self.login()

    def modification_date(self, filename):
        """
        return last file modification date as datetime object
        """
        t = os.path.getmtime(filename)
        return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t)

    def login(self, forceLogin = False):
        """
        login to a session. Try to read last saved session from cache file. If this fails
        do proper login. If the last cache access was too old, also perform a proper login.
        Always updates session cache file.
        """
        wasReadFromCache = False
        if self.debug:
            print('loading or generating session...')
        if os.path.exists(self.sessionFile) and not forceLogin:
            time = self.modification_date(self.sessionFile)

            # only load if file less than 30 minutes old
            lastModification = (datetime.datetime.now() - time).seconds
            if lastModification < self.maxSessionTime:
                with open(self.sessionFile, "rb") as f:
                    self.session = pickle.load(f)
                    wasReadFromCache = True
                    if self.debug:
                        print("loaded session from cache (last access %ds ago) "
                              % lastModification)
        if not wasReadFromCache:
            self.session = requests.Session()
            self.session.headers.update({'user-agent' : self.userAgent})
            res = self.session.post(self.loginUrl, data = self.loginData, proxies = self.proxies)

            if self.debug:
                print('created new session with login' )
            self.saveSessionToCache()

        # test login
        res = self.session.get(self.loginTestUrl)
        if res.text.lower().find(self.loginTestString.lower()) < 0:
            raise Exception("could not log into provided site '%s'"
                            " (did not find successful login string)"
                            % self.loginUrl)

    def saveSessionToCache(self):
        """
        save session to a cache file
        """
        # always save (to update timeout)
        with open(self.sessionFile, "wb") as f:
            pickle.dump(self.session, f)
            if self.debug:
                print('updated session cache-file %s' % self.sessionFile)

    def retrieveContent(self, url, method = "get", postData = None):
        """
        return the content of the url with respect to the session.

        If 'method' is not 'get', the url will be called with 'postData'
        as a post request.
        """
        if method == 'get':
            res = self.session.get(url , proxies = self.proxies)
        else:
            res = self.session.post(url , data = postData, proxies = self.proxies)

        # the session has been updated on the server, so also update in cache
        self.saveSessionToCache()

        return res

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # proxies = {'https' : 'https://user:pass@server:port',
    #           'http' : 'http://user:pass@server:port'}

    loginData = {'user' : 'usr',
                 'password' :  'pwd'}

    loginUrl = 'https://...'
    loginTestUrl = 'https://...'
    successStr = 'Hello Tom'
    s = MyLoginSession(loginUrl, loginData, loginTestUrl, successStr,
                       #proxies = proxies
                       )

    res = s.retrieveContent('https://....')
    print(res.text)

import requests
import json

authUrl = 'https://whatever.com/login'

#The subsequent url
testUrl = 'https://whatever.com/someEndpoint'

#Whatever you are posting
login_data =  {'formPosted':'1', 'login_email':'me@example.com', 'password':'pw'}

#The auth token or any other data that we will recieve from the authRequest.
token = ''

# Post the loginRequest
loginRequest = requests.post(authUrl,login_data)
print loginRequest.text

# Save the request content to your variable. In this case I needed a field called token.
token = str(json.loads(loginRequest.content)['token'])
print token

# Verify successfull login
print loginRequest.status_code

#Create your RequestsCookieJar for your subsequent requests and add the cookie
jar = requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar()
jar.set('LWSSO_COOKIE_KEY', token)

#Execute your next request(s) with the RequestCookieJar set
r = requests.get(testUrl, cookies=jar)
print(r.text)
print(r.status_code)

import requests

username = "my_user_name"
password = "my_super_secret"
url = "https://www.my_base_url.com"
the_page_i_want = "/my_json_data_page"

session = requests.Session()
# retrieve cookie value
resp = session.get(url+'/login')
csrf_token = resp.cookies['csrftoken']
# login, add referer
resp = session.post(url+"/login",
                  data={
                      'username': username,
                      'password': password,
                      'csrfmiddlewaretoken': csrf_token,
                      'next': the_page_i_want,
                  },
                  headers=dict(Referer=url+"/login"))
print(resp.json())