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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/richardpenman/browsercookie
- Owner: richardpenman
- License: lgpl-2.1
- Created: 2020-05-05T21:42:53.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-08-07T06:42:19.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-01T06:58:04.895Z (2 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 55.7 KB
- Stars: 112
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 27
- Open Issues: 7
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
Browser Cookie
==============
The **browsercookie** module loads cookies used by your web browser
into a cookiejar object. This can be useful if you want to use python to
download the same content you see in the web browser without needing to
login.
Install
-------
```python
pip install browsercookie
```
On Windows the builtin sqlite module will raise an error when loading
the FireFox database. An updated version of sqlite can be installed with:
```python
pip install pysqlite
```
Usage
-----
Here is a hack to extract the title from a webpage:
```python
>>> import re
>>> get_title = lambda html: re.findall('(.*?)', html, flags=re.DOTALL)[0].strip()
```
And here is the webpage title when downloaded normally:
```python
>>> import urllib2
>>> url = 'https://bitbucket.org/'
>>> public_html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
>>> get_title(public_html)
'Git and Mercurial code management for teams'
```
Now let's try with **browsercookie** - make sure you are logged into
Bitbucket in Firefox before trying this example:
```python
>>> import urllib.request
>>> public\_html = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
>>> opener = urllib.request.build\_opener(urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
```
You should see your own username here, meaning the module successfully
loaded the cookies from Firefox.
Here is an alternative example with
[requests](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/), this time
loading the Chrome cookies. Again make sure you are logged into
Bitbucket in Chrome before running this:
```python
>>> import requests
>>> cj = browsercookie.chrome()
>>> r = requests.get(url, cookies=cj)
>>> get_title(r.content)
'richardpenman / home — Bitbucket'
```
Alternatively if you don't know/care which browser has the cookies you
want then all available browser cookies can be loaded:
```python
>>> cj = browsercookie.load()
>>> r = requests.get(url, cookies=cj)
>>> get_title(r.content)
'richardpenman / home — Bitbucket'
```
Contribute
----------
So far the following platforms are supported:
- **Chrome:** Linux, OSX, Windows
- **Firefox:** Linux, OSX, Windows
- **Brave:** Linux, OSX, Windows
However I only tested on a single version of each browser and so am not
sure if the cookie sqlite format changes location or format in
earlier/later versions. If you experience a problem please [open an
issue](https://github.com/richardpenman/browsercookie/issues/new)
which includes details of the browser version and operating system. Also
patches to support other browsers are very welcome, particularly for
Internet Explorer on Windows.
Acknowledgements
----------------
* Nathan Henrie for his example of [how to decode the Chrome cookies](http://n8henrie.com/2013/11/use-chromes-cookies-for-easier-downloading-with-python-requests/)
* Graeme Robinson for his Chrome Windows patch