How to Save and Load Cookies Using Python + Selenium Webdriver

How to save and load cookies using Python + Selenium WebDriver

You can save the current cookies as a Python object using pickle. For example:

import pickle
import selenium.webdriver

driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
pickle.dump( driver.get_cookies() , open("cookies.pkl","wb"))

And later to add them back:

import pickle
import selenium.webdriver

driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
cookies = pickle.load(open("cookies.pkl", "rb"))
for cookie in cookies:
    driver.add_cookie(cookie)

Save/Load Cookies with Python Selenium + Chrome

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium import webdriver
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("user-data-dir=selenium") 
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

You'd have to use options like so otherwise you'd get a depreciation warning from chrome options.

How to get cookies saved in browser with python and Selenium

import pickle
import os
from selenium import webdriver
import time


option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.add_argument("--no-sandbox")        
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=option)
driver.get("https://google.com")
time.sleep(5)
if os.path.exists('cookies.pkl'):
    cookies = pickle.load(open("cookies.pkl", "rb"))
    for cookie in cookies:
        driver.add_cookie(cookie)
    driver.refresh()
    sleep(5)
pickle.dump(driver.get_cookies(), open("cookies.pkl", "wb"))

pickle will help you save and add cookies. But, be sure to add them to the correct domain otherwise you might get errors.

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