Error when loading cookies into a Python request session

Question

I am trying to load cookies into my request session in Python from selenium exported cookies, however when I do it returns the following error: \"\'list\' object has no attr

Answer 1

Since you are replacing session.cookies (RequestsCookieJar) with a list which don't have those attributes, it won't work.

You can import those cookies one by one by using:

for c in your_cookies_list:
   initial_state.cookies.set(name=c['name'], value=c['value'])

I've tried loading the whole cookie but it seems like requests doesn't recognize those ones and returns:

TypeError: create_cookie() got unexpected keyword arguments: ['expiry', 'httpOnly']

requests accepts expires instead and HttpOnly comes nested within rest

Update:

We can also change the dict keys for expiry and httpOnly so that requests correctly load them instead of throwing an exception, by using dict.pop() which deletes an item from dict by the key and returns the value of deleted key so after we add a new key with deleted item value then unpack & pass them as kwargs:

for c in your_cookies_list:
    c['expires'] = c.pop('expiry')
    c['rest'] = {'HttpOnly': c.pop('httpOnly')}
    initial_state.cookies.set(**c)