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Re: Looking for a urllib(2) cookie handler

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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in python 2.6.5, and have Firefox 3.6.13. I would like to download
> some html from a site and scrape it programatically. The site requires
> a cookie, which I have in Firefox.
>
> Is there a simple python recipe I can use to read the contents of a
> url and say "just use the cookie that I have in Firefox"?

Untested (3rd Google hit for "import firefox cookies python"):
http://blog.mithis.net/archives/python/90-firefox3-cookies-in-python

At a minimum, I think you'll need to replace:
from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite
With:
import sqlite3 as sqlite

You'll also have to figure out where Firefox's `cookies.sqlite` file
is located on your system.

Cheers,
Chris
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My compiler is compiling, I swear!
http://blog.rebertia.com

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Looking for a urllib(2) cookie handler Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 04:44 -0700
  Re: Looking for a urllib(2) cookie handler Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-04-19 05:01 -0700
  Re: Looking for a urllib(2) cookie handler Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 05:48 -0700
    Re: Looking for a urllib(2) cookie handler Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-04-19 05:57 -0700

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