Why isn't my Python request module code working and letting me auto-login into Reddit? It keeps returning 400 response

Question

Why isn't my Python request module code working and letting me auto-login into Reddit? It keeps returning 400 response

586 Views Asked by Dorito At 04 April 2025 at 21:51

With using the requests module, I'm trying to create an "auto-login" into my Reddit account program. My Python code:

   s = requests.Session()
   url = 'https://www.reddit.com/login'
   payload = {'username':'username','password':'password'}
   response = s.post(url,data=payload)
   response.status_code
   response.content

'response.status_code' keeps returning 400. Why do I keep getting a 400 http response when my Chrome settings allow cookies? Also, 'response.content' returns that I have a bad CSRF Token.

b'<html>\n <head>\n  <title>400 Bad CSRF Token</title>\n </head>\n <body>\n  <h1>400 Bad CSRF Token</h1>\n  Access is denied.  This server can not verify that your cross-site request forgery token belongs to your login session.  Either you supplied the wrong cross-site request forgery token or your session no longer exists.  This may be due to session timeout or because browser is not supplying the credentials required, as can happen when the browser has cookies turned off.<br/><br/>\ncheck_csrf_token(): Invalid token\n\n\n </body>\n</html>

This totally confuses me because I am using a Session. I have no idea why this is going wrong, does anybody know why and how to fix this?

Original Q&A

There are 1 best solutions below

**Samsul Islam** · Answer 1

Its work for me.use requests.post url as user profile link.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0"
}
def main(url):
    with requests.Session() as req:
        req.headers.update(headers)
        response = req.get(url)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml')
        csrf = soup.find('div',{"class": "App m-desktop"}).find(attrs={'name':'csrf_token'}).get('value')
        payload = {'username':'username','password':'password',"csrf_token":csrf}
        username = 'username'
        login_url = f"https://www.reddit.com/user/{username}"
        data = req.get(login_url, data=payload)
        print(data.content)
        print(data.status_code)

url = 'https://www.reddit.com/login/'
main(url=url)

Why isn't my Python request module code working and letting me auto-login into Reddit? It keeps returning 400 response

There are 1 best solutions below

Related Questions in PYTHON

Related Questions in PYTHON-3.X

Related Questions in PYTHON-REQUESTS

Related Questions in REDDIT

Related Questions in PYTHON-REQUESTS-HTML

Trending Questions

Popular # Hahtags

Popular Questions