Module grab.cookie

This module contains some classes to work with cookies.

grab.cookie.create_cookie(name, value, domain, httponly=None, **kwargs)

Creates cookielib.Cookie instance

class grab.cookie.CookieManager(cookiejar=None)

Each Grab instance has cookies attribute that is instance of CookieManager class.

That class contains helpful methods to create, load, save cookies from/to different places.

__init__(cookiejar=None)

set(name, value, domain, **kwargs)

Add new cookie or replace existing cookie with same parameters.

Parameters

• name – name of cookie

• value – value of cookie

• kwargs – extra attributes of cookie

update(cookies)

clear()

__getitem__(key)

Implements dict interface, allows to get cookie value by its name.

items()

get_dict()

load_from_file(path)

Load cookies from the file.

Content of file should be a JSON-serialized list of dicts.

save_to_file(path)

Dump all cookies to file.

Cookies are dumped as JSON-serialized dict of keys and values.