Save cookies to a file #1056

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1. florimondmanca commented on Jul 10, 2020

   

   florimondmanca

   on Jul 10, 2020

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   Hi,

   Cookies instances are mappings (the docs say "a dict-like cookie store", and "standard mutable mapping interface"), so you can pass them to dict() to get a JSON-serializable dict object back. Similarly Client(cookies=…) accepts a dict, so you can pass the result of json.load() to it.

   Example:

   import json
   import httpx
   
   client = httpx.Client()
   r = client.get('https://www.google.com')
   
   # Save cookies...
   
   with open('cookies.json', 'w') as f:
       json.dump(dict(client.cookies), f)
   
   # Load cookies...
   
   with open('cookies.json') as f:
       cookies = json.load(f)
   
   client = httpx.Client(cookies=cookies)

   Hope this helps!

   Note that there seems to be some caveats to this "dump-and-load cookies" approach with some websites, see #895.

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