It will then check your identity, and on success save a “session cookie” that will identify you until you close the program.įor this method, more information is required for Grabber to be able to log you in: With the “POST” method, Grabber will first login to the website just like a real user would do: it will fill a form and send the data to the site. For this mode, you don’t need to fill anything in this tab. This way, for every request sent, the site can check your identity. With the “Through URL” method, your credentials (often hashed) are passed directly in the URL of the request. There are two main login methods: “Through URL” and “POST”. You may have to go to the “Login” tab of the site options and input more settings there. Login methodsįor some sources, simply adding the credentials is not enough.
The password field should have been filled with your “password hash”, which looks something like “b842ee4b63ff70e4bfb8537593b295a5f95f3710”Ĭlick “Confirm” at the bottom of the site settings window, and you’re done! Further requests on that website will use your credentials.Enter your password in the window that just opened.If the “Hash password” button is present, click it.Enter your username and password (if the site provides an API key, put it in the password field)įor security reasons, some sources require you to hash your password.Click the “Options” button in front of the website you want to log into.Click the “Sources” button at the bottom of any search tab.To log into a source, all you have to do is to open the settings of the source you want to log into and enter your credentials there.