Borrow cookies from your browser's authenticated session for use in Python scripts.
- Free software: MIT
- Documentation: http://n8h.me/HufI1w
NB: Use pip
and python
instead of pip3
and python3
if you're still
on Python 2.
pip3 install pycookiecheat
git clone https://github.com/n8henrie/pycookiecheat.git
cd pycookiecheat
python3 -m venv venv
venv/bin/pip install -e .[dev]
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')
- Returns decrypted cookies from Google Chrome on OSX or Linux.
I don't use Windows or have a PC, so I won't be adding support myself. Feel free to make a PR :)
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.