Python - open a website and send cookies

Question

How to send a cookie to the webbrowser using Python (I am using version 3.7)?

I know how to open a website:

import webbrowser
webbrowser.open("http://www.example.com", new=2)

But I have no idea, how to open that site with some cookies saved somewhere.

Aphyllous

I'm not sure but I think you need to send a GET or POST request obj and put those cookies in it. – Prompter

What have you tried so far? – Sayles

Now, I am looking into selenium webdriver. I hope it will give me a solution. – Aphyllous

Answer 1

I solved the problem using selenium and a webdriver.

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Chrome()

browser.get("http://www.example.com")
browser.add_cookie({
    'name' : 'myLovelyCookie',
    'value' : 'myLovelyValue'
})

And the result: Cookie

Aphyllous

Answer 2

Not sure how to do it using the webbrowser library, but this can be easily done with the requests library. For example:

import requests
cookie = {
    'uid': 'example_user_id', 
}
url = "https://example.com"
req = requests.get(url, cookies=cookie)

From there you can read the content of the server’s response, contained in req.

Estipulate

But how to open browser now? – Aphyllous

Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah not sure how to open it in a browser, this would just get all the info from that URL with the cookies. – Estipulate