Selenium: Why my get_cookies() method returned a list in Python?

Question

Below is my script:

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

driver.get(\"http://www.google.com\")

all_cookies = dr         


        

Answer 1

Cookies contain a lot more information than simply name and value information, for example expiration date, domain, etc. Therefore, a simple key/value pair is not sufficient. If all you're interested in ONLY the name and its corresponding value, then I'd do something similar to the following to construct your own dictionary:

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
cookies_list = driver.get_cookies()
cookies_dict = {}
for cookie in cookies_list:
    cookies_dict[cookie['name']] = cookie['value']

print(cookies_dict)

Answer 2

I understand that get_cookies() returns a list of dictionaries, each dict holding the properties for each cookie found:

http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/navigating.html#cookies

Answer 3

since you asked for all cookies with driver.get_cookies() it returns a list of dictionaries with (key, value) pair for each cookie stored. If, instead you are interested in a specific cookie identified with a name name you can request for that specific cookie by name with driver.get_cookie(name) which Returns the cookie if found, None if not.

i.e.

driver.get_cookies() #returns list of cookie dictionaries
driver.get_cookie(name) # returns a cookie dictionary of specified cookie