Cookie Support

By default, Grab automatically handles all cookies it receives from the remote server. Grab remembers all cookies and sends them back in future requests. That allows you to easily implement scripts that log in to some site and then do some activity in a member-only area. If you do not want Grab to automatically process cookies, use reuse_cookies option to disable it.

Custom Cookies

To send some custom cookies, use the cookies option. The value of that option should be a dict. When you specify some cookies with cookies option and then fire network request, all specified cookies are bound to the hostname of the request.

Internally Grab instance stores cookies in http.cookiejar:CookieJar instance.

It is important to understand that Response object contains only cookies has been provided by the server in recent HTTP response. If you need all session cookies use “Grab:cookies” attribute.

If you want more granular control on custom cookies, you can use the grab.util.cookies.create_cookie function to create Cookie object and add its to Grab instance:

>>> from grab.util.cookies import create_cookie
>>> g = Grab()
>>> g.cookies.set_cookie(create_cookie(name='foo', value='bar', domain='yandex.ru', path='/host'))