How to save requests (python) cookies to a file?

Question

How to use the library requests (in python) after a request

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import requests
bot = requests.session         


        

Answer 1

Expanding on @miracle2k's answer, requests Sessions are documented to work with any cookielib CookieJar. The LWPCookieJar (and MozillaCookieJar) can save and load their cookies to and from a file. Here is a complete code snippet which will save and load cookies for a requests session. The ignore_discard parameter is used to work with httpbin for the test, but you may not want to include it your in real code.

import os
from cookielib import LWPCookieJar

import requests


s = requests.Session()
s.cookies = LWPCookieJar('cookiejar')
if not os.path.exists('cookiejar'):
    # Create a new cookies file and set our Session's cookies
    print('setting cookies')
    s.cookies.save()
    r = s.get('http://httpbin.org/cookies/set?k1=v1&k2=v2')
else:
    # Load saved cookies from the file and use them in a request
    print('loading saved cookies')
    s.cookies.load(ignore_discard=True)
    r = s.get('http://httpbin.org/cookies')
print(r.text)
# Save the session's cookies back to the file
s.cookies.save(ignore_discard=True)