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I am not sure what "bots" you are talking about here. When I wrote a web scraper to get my Air Canada point values I used a script that fetches the web page and parses it. It was the only way i could get it to work. I had to steel the session token from the browser cookie in order to make it auth



I guarantee that, with some effort, you could write a script to emulate every HTTP call -- logging in, accepting the cookie (just a value in a Set-Cookie header), and requesting the point values, making sure that cookie value is in your Cookie header. Just because you could "only get it to work" one way, does not mean there isn't a far more efficient way.


Dude, this is my story about my experience. The context provided above is relevant to what I was doing. This has nothing to do with theoretical possibilities that you are speaking about it. You are in the wrong thread.




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