Staying Logged In W/ Python Requests

So I am trying to log into and navigate to a page using python and requests. I'm pretty sure I am getting logged in, but once I try to navigate to a page the HTML I print from that

Solution 1:

Here's an example of logging in, getting the resultant cookies, then using them to make another request:

    login_request = requests.post(ROUTE_AUTHENTICATE,
                                  data=LOGIN_CREDS,
                                  headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"})
    self.assertEqual(login_request.status_code, 200)
    self.cookies = login_request.cookies

...

    thing_request = requests.get(url, cookies=self.cookies)
    self.assertTrue(thing_request.status_code, 200)

    things = json.loads(things.text)