maivel / pycookiecheat

Borrow cookies from your browser's authenticated session for use in Python scripts.

pycookiecheat

Borrow cookies from your browser's authenticated session for use in Python scripts.

• Free software: MIT
• Documentation: http://n8h.me/HufI1w

Installation

NB: Use pip and python instead of pip3 and python3 if you're still on Python 2.

Quickstart

• pip3 install pycookiecheat

Development Setup

1. git clone https://github.com/n8henrie/pycookiecheat.git
2. cd pycookiecheat
3. python3 -m venv venv
4. venv/bin/pip install -e .[dev]

Usage

from pycookiecheat import chrome_cookies
import requests

url = 'http://example.com/fake.html'

# Uses Chrome's default cookies filepath by default
cookies = chrome_cookies(url)
r = requests.get(url, cookies=cookies)

Use the cookie_file keyword-argument to specify a different filepath for the cookies-file: chrome_cookies(url, cookie_file='/abspath/to/cookies')

Features

• Returns decrypted cookies from Google Chrome on OSX or Linux.

FAQ / Troubleshooting

How about Windows?

I don't use Windows or have a PC, so I won't be adding support myself. Feel free to make a PR :)

I get an installation error with the cryptography module on OS X

If you're getting this error and using Homebrew, then you need to follow the instructions for Building cryptography on OS X and export LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" and try again.