Managing Website Credentials

Users can use Simplex with their own login credentials. This is useful when accessing websites that require authentication like internal tooling, real estate listings, or accounts receivable/payable software.

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Creating And Storing Login Data

Once you install the Python SDK, you can run our CLI command to create and open a login session for a given website.

simplex login {website_url}

You must set your SIMPLEX_API_KEY environment variable before running the command.

export SIMPLEX_API_KEY=your_api_key

After you log in, you can click the button on the page to capture the login session. This will download a JSON containing your session data.

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Using Login Data

After you download the login session JSON, you can use the create_session method to restore the login session on session creation.

Let’s say we’ve downloaded the login session JSON for Zillow and saved it in sessions/zillow_login_session.json.

from simplex import Simplex

simplex = Simplex(api_key="your_api_key")
simplex.create_session(session_data="sessions/zillow_login_session.json")
simplex.goto("https://www.zillow.com")

You can alternatively pass the login session JSON to the create_session method as a string.

from simplex import Simplex

simplex = Simplex(api_key="your_api_key") 
session_data_str = open("sessions/zillow_login_session.json").read()
simplex.create_session(session_data=session_data_str)
simplex.goto("https://www.zillow.com")