Authenticate on WordPress with wget

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I would like to login via Wget onto a WordPress website.

I have found on StackOverflow something related to basic authentication.

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wget --save-cookies cookies.txt 
--post-data 'user=foo&password=bar' 
http://server.com/auth.php

and tried this with a WordPress site but did not work.

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  1. Try this. This worked for me for one of the Drupal projects I worked on sometime ago. Its answered by asciikewl on the Drupal thread https://drupal.org/node/118759

    I’ve managed to get it working this way, using wget’s own cookie handling:
    I’m also referencing the /user page, not a login block (not enabled on my site)

    #!/bin/sh
site=http://your site url with a slash on the end/
name=ScriptUser
pass=somethingsecure
cookies=/tmp/cron-cookies.txt
wget -O /dev/null --save-cookies /tmp/ba-cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --load-cookies $cookies "${site}user"
wget --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies $cookies --load-cookies $cookies -O /dev/null 
    --post-data="name=$name&pass=$pass&op=Log%20in&form_id=user_login" 
    "${site}user?destination=login_redirect"
wget --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies $cookies --load-cookies $cookies "${site}login_redirect"

    Maybe with the wget cookie handling you can recurse the site.

  2. For WordPress, you’re only missing a tiny bit, which is the testcookie=1. Also you probably need a User-Agent otherwise you may receive a “403 Forbidden” response.

    So all together the script should be:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

site="http://server.com"
login_address="$site/wp-login.php"
log="username"
pwd="password"
cookies="/tmp/cookies.txt"
agent="Mozilla/5.0"

# authenticate and save cookies
wget 
    --user-agent="$agent" 
    --save-cookies $cookies 
    --keep-session-cookies 
    --delete-after 
    --post-data="log=$log&pwd=$pwd&testcookie=1" 
    "$login_address"

# access home page with authenticated cookies
wget 
    --user-agent="$agent" 
    --load-cookies $cookies 
    "$site"

    Pro tip:
    using Chrome Developers tools, in the “Network” tab, you can “Copy as cURL”, which is not too far from wget format.

    Copy as cURL