How to send cookies in a post request with the Python Requests library?

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Ricardo Altamirano picture Ricardo Altamirano · Aug 23, 2011 · Viewed 232.6k times · Source

I'm trying to use the Requests library to send cookies with a post request, but I'm not sure how to actually set up the cookies based on its documentation. The script is for use on Wikipedia, and the cookie(s) that need to be sent are of this form:

enwiki_session=17ab96bd8ffbe8ca58a78657a918558e; path=/; domain=.wikipedia.com; HttpOnly

However, the requests documentation quickstart gives this as the only example:

cookies = dict(cookies_are='working')

How can I encode a cookie like the above using this library? Do I need to make it with python's standard cookie library, then send it along with the POST request?

Answer

Kenneth Reitz picture Kenneth Reitz · Aug 23, 2011

The latest release of Requests will build CookieJars for you from simple dictionaries.

import requests

cookies = {'enwiki_session': '17ab96bd8ffbe8ca58a78657a918558'}

r = requests.post('http://wikipedia.org', cookies=cookies)

Enjoy :)

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