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James Samovar
James Samovar

Reputation: 83

How to set cookies in Scrapy+Splash when javascript makes multiple requests?

When the javascript is loaded, it makes a another ajax request where cookies should be set in the response. However, Splash does not keep any cookies across multiple requests, is there a way to keep the cookies across all requests? Or even assign them manually between each requests.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6917

Answers (1)

Mikhail Korobov
Mikhail Korobov

Reputation: 22238

Yes, there is an example in scrapy-splash README - see Session Handling section. In short, first, make sure that all settings are correct. Then use SplashRequest(url, endpoint='execute', args={'lua_source': script}) to send scrapy requests. Rendering script should be like this:

function main(splash)
    splash:init_cookies(splash.args.cookies)

    -- ... your script

    return {
        cookies = splash:get_cookies(),
        -- ... other results, e.g. html
    }
end

There is also a complete example with cookie handling, header handling, etc. in scrapy-splash README - see a last example here.

Upvotes: 5

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