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ishandutta2007
ishandutta2007

Reputation: 18284

How to save the session of Whatsapp web with Selenium Python?

My expectation was something would get added to the cookeies array automatically after validation but that isn't the case.

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
whatsapp_url = "https://web.whatsapp.com"
driver.get(whatsapp_url)
print(driver.get_cookies())
time.sleep(30) # We are doing the manual QR code verification here
print(driver.get_cookies())

driver.get_cookies() is empty before and after as well

Upvotes: 7

Views: 17313

Answers (5)

danielhamamuragmailcom
danielhamamuragmailcom

Reputation: 21

https://pt.stackoverflow.com/questions/241604/salva-o-estado-ou-os-cookies-do-navegador-utilizando-o-selenium

This worked fine for me! I

import os
from selenium import webdriver

dir_path = os.getcwd()
profile = os.path.join(dir_path, "profile", "wpp")
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument(
    r"user-data-dir={}".format(profile))

browser = webdriver.Chrome("./chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=options)

browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com")

Upvotes: 2

Navpreet Devpuri
Navpreet Devpuri

Reputation: 573

Web Whatsapp stores sessions in IndexedDB and sync those values to local storage.

Here is the working code you can try: tithiwa/session.py by using this javascript code

Upvotes: 0

Zakaria Ferzazi
Zakaria Ferzazi

Reputation: 472

am not sure but You can save your current cookies using pickle, For example:

import pickle
from selenium import webdriver

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

after that add them back using this code:

import pickle
from selenium import webdriver

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

Upvotes: 0

Leonardo Wolter
Leonardo Wolter

Reputation: 149

I couldn't comment Abhi Bhalgami answer but I need to made some changes based on another post:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chromepath = r'E:\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe'
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromepath, chrome_options=options)

extract and save whatsapp session from chrome browser local storage and then use it on another device

Upvotes: 4

Abhi
Abhi

Reputation: 312

Try this:

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions();
options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=./User_Data')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get('https://web.whatsapp.com/')

You need to login first time. It'll work always when you have to store your session. No need to import/export cookies.

Upvotes: 16

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