Python Web Scraping Cookbook

How to do it

We proceed with the recipe as follows:

1. When you signed up for Elastic Cloud, you were given various endpoints and variables, such as username and password.  The URL was similar to the following:

https://<account-id>.us-west-2.aws.found.io:9243

Depending on the cloud and region, the rest of the domain name, as well as the port, may differ.

2. We'll use a slight variant of the following URL to communicate and authenticate with Elastic Cloud:

https://<username>:<password>@<account-id>.us-west-2.aws.found.io:9243

3. Currently, mine is (it will be disabled by the time you read this):

https://elastic:[e-mail]:9243

4. Basic authentication and connectivity can be checked ...