Python: urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

Question

I was trying to load a web page, but I ran into this problem. I do have the username and password, but I don\'t know how to use them in python code. I looked up on python tutori

Answer 1

I think you can use requests module which would make it be more easy for you.

import requests
username = 'user'
password = 'pass'
url = 'http://www.example.com/index.html'
r = requests.get(url, auth=(username, password))  
page = r.content
print page

Answer 2

Here is working code

import urllib2

url = 'http://www.abc.com/index.html'
username = 'user'
password = 'pass'
p = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()

p.add_password(None, url, username, password)

handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(p)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

page = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()