Cookies in Python

If you want to use cookies in web development, requests library is a very wise choice.

If a response contains some Cookies, you can get quick access to them:

>>> url = 'http://www.google.com'
>>> r = requests.get(url)
>>> r.cookies

If you want to send your own cookies to server, you can simple add cookies parameters:

>>>cookies = dict('name'='value')
>>> r = requests.get(url, cookies=cookies)

If you want to set the domain or path value in cookies, just add them into the cookies dict which you created before.

Also, you can use create_cookie method that requests supplies, you can import it by from requests.cookies import create_cookie, it will exactly do the same job.

c = create_cookie('aaa', 'bbb', domain='localhost')

The cookies created are instances of cookielib.Cookie, they are held by requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar.

requests is a very useful library, and what’s more, it is simple. Go to requests to see more.