How to set and retrieve cookie in HTTP header in Python?

Question

I need to get the cookies from a HTTP response sent by a server and put it in the next request\'s header. How can I do it?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Current answer is to use Requests module and the requests.Session object.

• Quick Start; http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#json-response-content
• Sessions: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#session-objects

    import requests
    s = requests.Session()
    s.get('http://httpbin.org/cookies/set/sessioncookie/123456789')
    r = s.get('http://httpbin.org/cookies')
    print(r.text)
    # '{"cookies": {"sessioncookie": "123456789"}}'

    print(s.cookies)
    # RequestsCookieJar[Cookie(version=0, name='sessioncookie', value='123456789', port=None, port_specified=False, domain='httpbin.org', domain_specified=False, domain_initial_dot=False, path='/', path_specified=True, secure=False, expires=None, discard=True, comment=None, comment_url=None, rest={}, rfc2109=False)]

You may need to pip install requests or pipenv install requests first.