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Message: [QUOTE="Andrew Cowan, post: 4601949"] Heya, I am attempting to write a script that lets me login to my Youtube account to gather frequent data for the videos I have uploaded, I am stumbling over the Youtube login procedure which seems to involve both cookies and session info. I am able to get this login procedure to work with Perl and LWP::UserAgent but so far using net/http and Ruby I am failing. Here is the code I have been playing with which involves first a POST form submission to youtube's /login script, then the code to follow the redirection back to the /index page -- but looking at the contents returned from /index it appears youtube doesn't recognize me as being logged in: --- # Note: I have added a bunch of puts statements to help debug, leaving them here for this post require 'net/http' http = Net::HTTP.new( '[URL="http://www.youtube.com"]www.youtube.com[/URL]', 80 ) path = '/login' agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1' data = 'nexturl=/&current_form=loginForm&action_login=Log+In&username=MY_USER&password=MY_PWD' headers = { 'Referer' => '[URL]http://www.youtube.com/[/URL]', 'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'User-Agent' => agent } resp, data = http.post( path, data, headers ) cookie = resp.response['set-cookie'] if ( resp.code =~ /^3/ ) puts "Got Redirect: " + resp['location'] end next_loc = resp['location'] puts 'Logging In to Set Cookies:' puts 'Code=' + resp.code puts 'Mesg=' + resp.message puts 'Cookie=' + cookie puts 'Next Location=' + next_loc puts 'Data=' + data headers = { 'Cookie' => cookie, 'User-Agent' => agent } resp, data = http.get( next_loc, headers ) puts '(should be) Logged In:' puts 'Code=' + resp.code puts 'Mesg=' + resp.message puts 'Data=' + data --- I am unsure what part I am missing which youtube apparently needs to complete its login procedure, I would greatly appreciate any helpful suggestions! Thanks, Andy [/QUOTE]

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