Python 2.7 posting, and getting result from web site - python-2.7

Question

I appreciate the help in advance. I am trying to write a python script that posts an IP address to a site referenced below, and get the results printed out in the terminal or file, and then read the file immediately after.
Here is my script:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import requests
IP = raw_input("Enter IP address here: ")
Alert_URL = 'http://www.blacklistalert.org'
def submit_form():
"""Submit a form"""
payload = IP
# make a get request
resp = requests.get(Alert_URL)
print "Response to GET request: %s" % resp.content
# send POST request
resp = requests.post(Alert_URL, payload)
print "Headers from a POST request response: %s" % resp.headers
# print "HTML Response: %s" %resp.read()
if __name__ == '__main__':
submit_form()
The site has section to input IP addresses on the web page, and inspecting the site I found lines to input as follows:
<form method=POST onsubmit="document.forms[0].submit.disabled='true';">
IP or Domain <input onclick="this.value='';" name=q value=11.11.154.23>
I would like to post an IP address that I want to check to the site using the input section above somehow. For instance using raw_input to post into the 'value=' section, and get the result.
Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

You need to parse the PHPSESSID and post:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
ip = raw_input("Enter IP address here: ")
data = {"q": ip} # ip goes here
url = "http://www.blacklistalert.org/"
with requests.Session() as s:
# get the page first to parse
soup = BeautifulSoup(s.get(url).content)
# extract and add the PHPSESSID
PHPSESSID = soup.select_one("input[name=PHPSESSID]")["value"]
data["PHPSESSID"] = PHPSESSID
# finally post
res = s.post(url, data=data)
print(res)
print(res.content)