Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in digest authentication

Demystifying Authentication with Python Requests

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 22, 2023

Authentication can be tricky when working with APIs and web scraping. Python Requests provides various authentication schemes like basic, token-based, and digest authentication to make it easier. Understand the available auth classes and implement them properly to seamlessly integrate authentication into your Python scripts and apps.

Authenticating Requests Through a Proxy with Digest Auth in Python

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 3, 2024

Configure Python Requests module to handle proxy and digest authentication for secure access through authenticated proxy.

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