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Seems to me this is just saying: log in via the browser (with the right password), then use the generated cookie with the scraping code. You can also do that with wget --load-cookies

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True, you can use wget as well, but this way you have more control over your code.

For sure, I was responding to the title, it sounded like a security thing.

What did you thought this will be about? :)

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