How to use cookies in Python Requests

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I am trying to login to a page and access another link in the page   payload   username   lt username gt   password   lt password gt   with session   as s      r   c post  lt URL gt   data payload      print r     print r content   This is giving me a  405 Not Allowed  error  I checked the post method details using chrome developer tools and could see an api  URL api auth   I posted to that URL with the payload and it was working and i was getting a response similar to what i could see in the developer   Unfortunately when trying to  get  another url after login  i am still getting the content from the login page   Why is the login not sticking  Should i use cookies  I am a newbie  so i don t really know how to work with cookies

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Summary   Freek Wiekmeijer   gtalarico  other s answer  Logic of Login  Many resource pages  api  need authentication  then can access  otherwise 405 Not Allowed Common authentication grant access method are   cookie auth header  Basic xxx Authorization xxx      How use cookie in requests to auth  first get generate cookie send cookie for following request   manual set cookie in headers auto process cookie by requests s  session to auto manage cookies response cookies to manually set cookies    use requests s session auto manage cookies curSession   requests Session      all cookies received will be stored in the session object  payload   username    quot yourName quot   password    quot yourPassword quot   curSession post firstUrl  data payload    internally return your expected cookies  can use for following auth    internally use previously generated cookies  can access the resources curSession get secondUrl   curSession get thirdUrl   manually control requests s response cookies payload   username    quot yourName quot   password    quot yourPassword quot   resp1   requests post firstUrl  data payload     manually pass previously returned cookies into following request resp2   requests get secondUrl  cookies  resp1 cookies   resp3   requests get thirdUrl  cookies  resp2 cookies

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You can use a session object  It stores the cookies so you can make requests  and it handles the cookies for you  s   requests Session      all cookies received will be stored in the session object  s post  http   www     data payload  s get  http   www        Docs  https   requests readthedocs io en master user advanced  session-objects  You can also save the cookie data to an external file  and then reload them to keep session persistent without having to login every time you run the script   How to save requests  python  cookies to a file

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From the documentation    get cookie from response  url    http   example com some cookie setting url  r   requests get url  r cookies     example cookie name    example cookie value   give cookie back to server on subsequent request  url    http   httpbin org cookies  cookies   dict cookies are  working   r   requests get url  cookies cookies

[python] How to use cookies in Python Requests

Logic of Login

How use `cookie` in `requests` to auth

use `requests`'s `session` auto manage cookies

manually control `requests`'s `response.cookies`

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