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user113737
user113737

Reputation:

Retrieving all Cookies in Python

How do I read back all of the cookies in Python without knowing their names?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 46387

Answers (5)

Zitoun
Zitoun

Reputation: 720

An updated answer for 2024 / Python 3.11+, using HTTPSConnection/HTTPResponse

from http.client import HTTPResponse

def get_response_cookies(http_response: HTTPResponse):
    cookie_list = http_response.headers.get_all("set-cookie")
    if cookie_list is None or len(cookie_list) == 0:
        return None
    cookies = {}
    for cookie_str in cookie_list:
        cookie_info = cookie_str.split("; ")
        [name, val] = cookie_info[0].split("=")
        cookies[name] = val
    return cookies

You just have to call this function on your HttpResponse resulting of your connection request:

from http.client import HTTPSConnection

connection = HTTPSConnection(host)
connection.request(method=req_method, url=path_url, body=body, headers=headers)
response = connection.getresponse()
cookies = get_response_cookies(response)

Upvotes: 0

A Magoon
A Magoon

Reputation: 1210

This may be exactly what you are looking for.

Python 3.4

import requests

r = requests.get('http://www.about.com/')
c = r.cookies
i = c.items()

for name, value in i:
    print(name, value)

Upvotes: 5

Matt Lacey
Matt Lacey

Reputation: 65586

Put os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE'] into an array:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os

 if 'HTTP_COOKIE' in os.environ:
  cookies = os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE']
  cookies = cookies.split('; ')
  handler = {}

  for cookie in cookies:
   cookie = cookie.split('=')
   handler[cookie[0]] = cookie[1]

Upvotes: 6

JaseAnderson
JaseAnderson

Reputation: 2925

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here is a simple example where you put cookies in a cookiejar and read them back:

from urllib2 import Request, build_opener, HTTPCookieProcessor, HTTPHandler
import cookielib

#Create a CookieJar object to hold the cookies
cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
#Create an opener to open pages using the http protocol and to process cookies.
opener = build_opener(HTTPCookieProcessor(cj), HTTPHandler())

#create a request object to be used to get the page.
req = Request("http://www.about.com")
f = opener.open(req)

#see the first few lines of the page
html = f.read()
print html[:50]

#Check out the cookies
print "the cookies are: "
for cookie in cj:
    print cookie

Upvotes: 24

Alex Martelli
Alex Martelli

Reputation: 882611

Look at the Cookie: headers in the HTTP response you get, parse their contents with module Cookie in the standard library.

Upvotes: 4

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