Use existing authenticated session from browser to perform https request on python

Question

Is it possible to take an existing logged in session (say in Chrome) and pipe that session to a python script to perform an https request?

To be clear on what I want to

Answer 1

This should be possible if you reuse your browser's cookies and user agent. As far as I can see, any such solution would be browser-specific though: I have come across a script that uses SQLite to extract Chrome cookies and use them to make HTTP requests with the Requests library.

The script's chrome_cookies method returns a dictionary containing cookies. If you use the Requests library, you can pass the dictionary as a keyword argument when making requests:

import requests
import pyCookieCheat

url = 'http://www.example.com'

s = requests.Session()
cookies = pyCookieCheat.chrome_cookies(url)
s.get(url, cookies = cookies)

Answer 2

Why don't you parse out the generated CAPTCHA, display the image and manually input the solution? It may be an easier approach to your problem than actually hijacking a session. Plus, it would result in a more portable and stable script (probably).

Answer 3

This might help

jar = requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar([
{
    "domain": ".stackoverflow.com",
    "expirationDate": "1427212131.77312",
    "hostOnly": "false",
    "httpOnly": "true",
    "name": "usr",
    "path": "/",
    "secure": "false",
    "session": "false",
    "storeId": "0",
    "value": "SOMEVALUE",
    "id": "5"
}]
requests.get(url, headers=headers, cookies=jar)

@Stupid.Fat.Cat Let me know what worked for you