How to Extract Chrome Cookies in Python

Published on Aug. 22, 2023, 12:16 p.m.

There are several Python libraries and modules that you can use to extract Chrome cookies on a Windows machine. One such library is browsercookie, which allows you to extract cookies from various browsers, including Google Chrome.

Here’s an example Python code that uses the browsercookie library to extract Chrome cookies:

import browsercookie

cookies = browsercookie.chrome()
for cookie in cookies:
    print(cookie.name, cookie.value)

In this example, the browsercookie.chrome() function loads the cookies used by the Google Chrome browser into a cookie jar object. We then iterate through each cookie in the cookie jar object and print its name and value.

Note that to use this library, you will need to install it first. You can do that by running the following command in your command prompt or terminal:

pip install browsercookie

Aside from extracting Chrome cookies

Aside from extracting Chrome cookies, the browsercookie library can also be used to extract cookies from other web browsers, including Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Safari.

To extract cookies from Firefox, you can use the browsercookie.firefox() function. Similarly, you can use the browsercookie.edge() and browsercookie.safari() functions to extract cookies from Microsoft Edge and Safari, respectively.

Here’s an example of how to extract Firefox cookies using the browsercookie library:

import browsercookie

cookies = browsercookie.firefox()
for cookie in cookies:
    print(cookie.name, cookie.value)

You can also use the requests library to send HTTP requests with the extracted cookies, like this:

import requests
import browsercookie

cookies = browsercookie.chrome()
url = "https://www.example.com/"

response = requests.get(url, cookies=cookies)
print(response.content)

This code sends a GET request to https://www.example.com/ with the Chrome cookies extracted using browsercookie. The response content is then printed to the console.

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