How to Send Cookies in a Post Request with the Python Requests Library

How to send cookies in a post request with the Python Requests library?

The latest release of Requests will build CookieJars for you from simple dictionaries.

import requests

cookies = {'enwiki_session': '17ab96bd8ffbe8ca58a78657a918558'}

r = requests.post('http://wikipedia.org', cookies=cookies)

Enjoy :)

Send Cookie Using Python Requests

1. Yes. But make sure you call it "Cookie" (With capital C)

2. I always did it with a dict. Requests expects you to give a dict.

A string will give the following

cookiejar.set_cookie(create_cookie(name, cookie_dict[name]))
TypeError: string indices must be integers, not str

python requests get cookies

Alternatively, you can use requests.Session and observe cookies before and after a request:

>>> import requests
>>> session = requests.Session()
>>> print(session.cookies.get_dict())
{}
>>> response = session.get('http://google.com')
>>> print(session.cookies.get_dict())
{'PREF': 'ID=5514c728c9215a9a:FF=0:TM=1406958091:LM=1406958091:S=KfAG0U9jYhrB0XNf', 'NID': '67=TVMYiq2wLMNvJi5SiaONeIQVNqxSc2RAwVrCnuYgTQYAHIZAGESHHPL0xsyM9EMpluLDQgaj3db_V37NjvshV-eoQdA8u43M8UwHMqZdL-S2gjho8j0-Fe1XuH5wYr9v'}

How to add a cookie to the cookiejar in python requests library

I found out a way to do it by importing CookieJar, Cookie, and cookies. With help from @Lukasa, he showed me a better way. However, with his way I was not able to specify the "port_specified", "domain_specified", "domain_initial_dot" or "path_specified" attributes. The "set" method does it automatically with default values. I'm trying to scrape a website and their cookie has different values in those attributes. As I am new to all of this I'm not sure if that really matters yet.

my_cookie = {
"version":0,
"name":'COOKIE_NAME',
"value":'true',
"port":None,
# "port_specified":False,
"domain":'www.mydomain.com',
# "domain_specified":False,
# "domain_initial_dot":False,
"path":'/',
# "path_specified":True,
"secure":False,
"expires":None,
"discard":True,
"comment":None,
"comment_url":None,
"rest":{},
"rfc2109":False
}

s = requests.Session()
s.cookies.set(**my_cookie)

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