Python - Requests, Selenium - passing cookies while logging in

Question

I would like to integrate python Selenium and Requests modules to authenticate on a website.

I am using the following code:

import requests from selenium import webdriver  driver = webdriver.Firefox() url = "some_url" #a redirect to a login page occurs driver.get(url) #the login page is displayed  #making a persistent connection to authenticate params = {'os_username':'username', 'os_password':'password'} s = requests.Session() resp = s.post(url, params) #I get a 200 status_code  #passing the cookies to the driver driver.add_cookie(s.cookies.get_dict()) 

The problem is that when I enter the browser the login authentication is still there when I try to access the url even though I passed the cookies generated from the requests session.

How can I modify the code above to get through the authentication web-page?

Can anyone help me on this issue?
Your help is much appreciated.
Best Regards.

Answer 1

I finally found out what the problem was. Before making the post request with the requests library, I should have passed the cookies of the browser first. The code is as follows:

import requests from selenium import webdriver  driver = webdriver.Firefox() url = "some_url" #a redirect to a login page occurs driver.get(url)  #storing the cookies generated by the browser request_cookies_browser = driver.get_cookies()  #making a persistent connection using the requests library params = {'os_username':'username', 'os_password':'password'} s = requests.Session()  #passing the cookies generated from the browser to the session c = [s.cookies.set(c['name'], c['value']) for c in request_cookies_browser]  resp = s.post(url, params) #I get a 200 status_code  #passing the cookie of the response to the browser dict_resp_cookies = resp.cookies.get_dict() response_cookies_browser = [{'name':name, 'value':value} for name, value in dict_resp_cookies.items()] c = [driver.add_cookie(c) for c in response_cookies_browser]  #the browser now contains the cookies generated from the authentication     driver.get(url)