I am trying to learn how the headers are being constructed when a zipcode is entered by the user and a "POST" command is issued (by clicking on the "Shop Now" button) from the following website:
I believe the interesting part of this "POST" request is how the site is forming the following headers but I can't figure out how it is doing it (my suspicion is that there is some JavaScript/Angular code that is responsible):
x-ccwfdfx7-a
x-ccwfdfx7-b
x-ccwfdfx7-c
x-ccwfdfx7-d
x-ccwfdfx7-f
x-ccwfdfx7-z
So I have tried to use the requests
module to login as guest to learn more about how this flow works:
- with requests.Session()
- with cloudscraper.create_scraper()
So far all my attempts have FAILED. Here is my code:
import requests
from requests_toolbelt.utils import dump #pip install requests_toolbelt
import cloudscraper #pip install cloudscraper
#with requests.Session() as session:
with cloudscraper.create_scraper(
browser={
'custom': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36'
}
) as session:
CITY = XXXXX
ZIPCODE = XXXXX
#get cookies
url = 'http://www.peapod.com'
res1 = session.get(url)
session.headers['Referer'] = 'https://www.peapod.com/'
#get more cookies
url = 'http://www.peapod.com/login'
res2 = session.get(url)
#get more cookies
url = 'https://www.peapod.com/ppd/bundles/js/ppdBundle.js'
res3 = session.get(url)
#get all the service locations
response = session.get('https://www.peapod.com/api/v4.0/serviceLocations',
params={
'customerType': 'C',
'zip': ZIPCODE
}
)
try:
loc_id = list(
filter(
lambda x: x.get('location', {}).get('city') == CITY, response.json()['response']['locations']
)
)[0]['location']['id']
except IndexError:
raise ValueError("Can't find City '{}' -> Zip {}".format(CITY, ZIPCODE))
#login as guest
response = session.post('https://www.peapod.com/api/v4.0/user/guest',
json={
'customerType': 'C',
'cities': None,
'email': None,
'serviceLocationId': loc_id,
'zip': ZIPCODE
},
params={
'serviceLocationId': loc_id,
'zip': ZIPCODE
}
)
This seems to produce some sort of an error message saying "I'm blocked" which I believe is due to the fact that I can't figure out how the browser constructs the ccwfdfx7
headers in the "POST" request (my suspicion is that there is some JavaScript/Angular code that is responsible for constructing these headers but I can't find it and hoping someone could help...)
On the same computer, Chrome browser is able to login just fine