How to login and acquire cookie from browser - Python

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Would it be possible to automate the process of logging into a site within the firefox browser, copy and store the cookie, place it in a DB table?

Scratching my head with this one.

you can use `requests`/`urllib` with `BeautifulSoup`/`lxml` and it doesn't need browser. Or use `Selenium` to control web browser - ie. Firefox. First method can work faster but it can't run JavaScript. Second uses real web browser so it is slower but web browser runs JavaScript. — furas, May 03 '19 at 09:01

kartheek7895 · Answer 1 · 2019-05-03T09:18:31.017

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A simple way to achieve this is through browser automation.

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='{/path/to/geckodriver}')
driver.get("http://google.com")
cookies = driver.get_cookies()

Note: Download geckodriver compatiable to your firefox.

Edit: Completly overlooked the fact that python's requests module has a cookies attribute. This would be quicker compared to browser automation.

import requests

resp = requests.get("http://google.com")
cookies = resp.cookies._cookies

edited May 03 '19 at 09:18

answered May 03 '19 at 08:58

kartheek7895

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Is this usable with python? – user3296793 May 03 '19 at 09:12
I need to get the cookie post login though, is there a way i can use python to login? – user3296793 May 03 '19 at 09:34
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11892729/how-to-log-in-to-a-website-using-pythons-requests-module/17633072#17633072 check this out for logging in part – kartheek7895 May 03 '19 at 09:53

How to login and acquire cookie from browser - Python

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