title: logging into github with python
body: <p>I have been up and down these pages looking for how to do this and there are many similar posts but I can't seem to get it to work, so I find myself having to ask specifically how to do this.  </p>
  
  <p>I am trying to gather metrics about my software project in git hub. For many of these metrics you can use the API. However, one of the most interesting items are the unique visitors and view count on the github graphs/traffic and unfortunately this info is not located in the Github API.  So, to get this I am trying to log into my github account navigate to the site then get the numbers. Located below is my code.  I can't seem to get logged into github to do anything however (my url request continues to show a login page rather then the traffic page). I think it probably has something to do with the variables that need to be posted but I'm not sure whats wrong with them.</p>
  
  <pre><code>from requests import session
  from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
  
  USER = 'MYID'
  PASSWORD = 'MYPASSWORD'
  
  URL1 = 'https://github.com/login'
  URL2 = 'https://github.com/MYPROJ/graphs/traffic'
  
  with session() as s:
  
      req = s.get(URL1).text
      html = bs(req)
      token = html.find("input", {"name": "authenticity_token"}).attrs['value']
      com_val = html.find("input", {"name": "commit"}).attrs['value']         
  
      login_data = {'login_field': USER,
                    'password': PASSWORD,
                    'authenticity_token' : token,
                    'commit' : com_val}
  
      r1 = s.post(URL1, data = login_data)
      r2 = s.get(URL2)
  
      print(r2.url)
      print bs(r2.text).find('span', {'class':'num js-uniques uniques'})
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  -Jeff</p>