https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37841409/python-scrapy-login-authenication-issue
from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess import scrapy from scrapy.http import Request class FirstSpider(scrapy.Spider): name = "first" allowed_domains = ["instacart.com"] start_urls = [ "https://www.instacart.com" ] def start_requests(self): return [Request(url="https://www.instacart.com", callback=self.login)] def login(self, response): return scrapy.FormRequest('https://www.instacart.com/accounts/login', headers={"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest"}, formdata={'user[email]': 'xxxxxxx@gmail.com', 'user[password]': 'xxxxx', "authenticity_token": response.xpath( "//meta[@name='csrf-token']/@content").extract_first()}, callback=self.parse,dont_filter=True) def parse(self, response): print(response.body) if "Goutam" in response.body: print "Successfully logged in. Let's start crawling!" else: print "Login unsuccessful"