pycookiecheat 0.3.1

Borrow cookies from your browser's authenticated session foruse in Python scripts.

pycookiecheat

Borrow cookies from your browser’s authenticated session for use in Python scripts.

• Free software: MIT

• Documentation: http://n8h.me/HufI1w

Installation

NB: Use pip and python instead of pip3 and python3 if you’re still on Python 2.

Quickstart

• pip3 install pycookiecheat

Development Setup

1. git clone https://github.com/n8henrie/pycookiecheat.git

2. cd pycookiecheat

3. python3 -m venv venv

4. venv/bin/pip install -e .[dev]

Usage

from pycookiecheat import chrome_cookies
import requests

url = 'http://example.com/fake.html'

# Uses Chrome's default cookies filepath by default
cookies = chrome_cookies(url)
r = requests.get(url, cookies=cookies)

Use the cookie_file keyword-argument to specify a different filepath for the cookies-file: chrome_cookies(url, cookie_file='/abspath/to/cookies')

Features

• Returns decrypted cookies from Google Chrome on OSX or Linux.

FAQ / Troubleshooting

How about Windows?

I don’t use Windows or have a PC, so I won’t be adding support myself. Feel free to make a PR :)

I get an installation error with the cryptography module on OS X

If you’re getting this error and using Homebrew, then you need to follow the instructions for Building cryptography on OS X and export LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" and try again.

History

0.3.0

• Use `cryptography <https://cryptography.io/en/latest/>`__ instead of pycrypto (thanks to Taik!)

• Seems to be significantly faster

• Works with PyPy >= 2.6.0 (no support for PyPy3 yet)

0.2.0

• Fix domain and subdomain matching

• Make SQL query more secure by avoiding string formatting

• Many thanks to Brandon Rhodes for 24c4234 !

0.1.10

• Read version to separate file so it can be imported in setup.py

• Bugfix for python2 on linux

0.1.9

• Bugfix for python2 on linux

0.1.8

• Python2 support (thanks dani14-96)

0.1.7

• Configurable cookies file (thanks ankostis)

0.1.6

• OSError instead of Exception for wrong OS.

• Moved testing requirements to tox and travis-ci files.

0.1.5

• Updated to work better with PyPI’s lack of markdown support

• Working on tox and travis-ci integration

• Added a few basic tests that should pass if one has Chrome installed and has visited my site (n8henrie.com)

• Added sys.exit(0) if cookie_file not found so tests pass on travis-ci.

0.1.0 (2015-02-25)

• First release on PyPI.

Prior changelog from Gist

• 20150221 v2.0.1: Now should find cookies for base domain and all subs.

• 20140518 v2.0: Now works with Chrome’s new encrypted cookies.