I am quite new in python and trying to write a script to login to the page at http://ryushare.com/login.python. I have try many attempt, but it fails to login and i have no idea why. After login to the page, I wish to get the return of http://ryushare.com/file-manager.python Here's the code I try to attempt by reading the example from others. import urllib, urllib2, cookielib username = 'myusername' password = 'mypassword' cj = cookielib.CookieJar() opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj)) login_data = urllib.urlencode({'login' : username, 'password' : password}) opener.open('http://www.ryushare.com/login.python', login_data) resp = opener.open('http://ryushare.com/file-manager.python') print resp.read() I check the source code of the login page, it said the username and password value is "login and password" so i change it. I have try some other example which can be found here like google news feed, It also can not able to login : (