Programmatically logging into a site

Question

It might sound silly; but can we programmatically login into a site such as Linkedin by passing our user credentials (userid and password)? I am not talking about using OAuth or

Answer 1

You can use tools like selenium to automate and generate code for programmatically login. Also a search in google sure reveals more tools aimed to do "mashups" of web sites, like BeautifulSoup recommended in first answer.

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