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Auto login & extract data from a website

This isn't about any website in particular but various websites require you to login before you can access your account.

I want to know how applications (after you supply your username/password) manage to login into the websites and extract your account details?

I can use a webrequest to request a webpage but how do i login before i do that (programatically)?

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Okay, that makes sense.

I have a few ideas kicking about for an iPhone application, but would require me to log into a couple of pretty large organisations websites.

Probably a no-goer

Depends on the specifice orgs - the ones that are OK with it might even provide services to make it either (like Google exposing its map API) and give you easier alternatives than logging on.

If they are NOT, it is definitely a no-go.
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Thanks for the advice