[Help] how to save user cookies and credentials while creating bot in python
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MatthewGraham
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Probably in a local sqlite database.
hpscool
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Finally someone....well i can create accounts and all othr...but i m confused over how bots save cookies and stuff....i mean for example there was a youtube comment bot here (no longer on marketplace) which use cookies and http requests to upvote comments and add new comments,, are they storing the cookies in database
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Looked at this to dump them to a file?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13030095/how-to-save-requests-python-cookies-to-a-file
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13030095/how-to-save-requests-python-cookies-to-a-file
MatthewGraham
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Yes -- dump them into a file.
- The best kind of file to use would be a Sqlite database (for most use cases), since they're designed to be read from and written to. SQL databases (including Sqlite) are easy to work with in Python and there are built in Python libraries that work well for SQL reading/writing.
- Of course, you can use any kind of file. It's possible to read/write to a .txt file or a .csv/.xlsx. Although those types of files are generally going to be much harder to work with for storing/retrieving data for a bot.
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You can also initialize it with your own attributes and generate an appropriate HTTP header using the output() method. Here's an example for setting a cookie:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import Cookie
import datetime
import random
expiration = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(days=30)
cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
cookie["session"] = random.randint(1000000000)
cookie["session"]["domain"] = ".jayconrod.com"
cookie["session"]["path"] = "/"
cookie["session"]["expires"] = \
expiration.strftime("%a, %d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S PST")
print "Content-type: text/plain"
print cookie.output()
print
print "Cookie set with: " + cookie.output()
You can set more than cookie at a time using this module (it refers to each one as a "morsel").
This next example shows how to read the same cookie:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import Cookie
import os
print "Content-type: text/plain\n"
try:
cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie(os.environ["HTTP_COOKIE"])
print "session = " + cookie["session"].value
except (Cookie.CookieError, KeyError):
print "session cookie not set!"
#!/usr/bin/env python
import Cookie
import datetime
import random
expiration = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(days=30)
cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
cookie["session"] = random.randint(1000000000)
cookie["session"]["domain"] = ".jayconrod.com"
cookie["session"]["path"] = "/"
cookie["session"]["expires"] = \
expiration.strftime("%a, %d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S PST")
print "Content-type: text/plain"
print cookie.output()
print "Cookie set with: " + cookie.output()
You can set more than cookie at a time using this module (it refers to each one as a "morsel").
This next example shows how to read the same cookie:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import Cookie
import os
print "Content-type: text/plain\n"
try:
cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie(os.environ["HTTP_COOKIE"])
print "session = " + cookie["session"].value
except (Cookie.CookieError, KeyError):
print "session cookie not set!"
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use this as refrence .
https://jayconrod.com/posts/17/how-to-use-http-cookies-in-python
https://jayconrod.com/posts/17/how-to-use-http-cookies-in-python
MatthewGraham
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There's no specific volume of accounts at which you have to use a database. In theory, FaceBook could store all of it's data in .txt files duct taped together. It's not so much the volume of accounts that makes it worthwhile to use a database instead of some other file type; it's more that it's easier to work with in general.
Writing to a database is fairly simple. You execute some query like:
"UPDATE tumblr_accounts SET cookie_data=something WHERE id=12"
And then execute it with a one-line built-in Python function.
As opposed to writing to a CSV or text file or something else where you're going to end up writing a bunch of custom functions to parse and update the file, since they're not really designed to be interacted with in that way.
If you post in the thread I'll probably reply to it.
Yeah you just need to store cookies and they are nothing but text, so you can use txt files and avoid using any database altogether.
And retrieve them when you need them.
So I would make a folder say cookies and in that I would make files named as username of acc containing the cookie inside it .
And retrieve them when you need them.
So I would make a folder say cookies and in that I would make files named as username of acc containing the cookie inside it .
hpscool
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Thanks for the reply....I solved the issue using pickles in Python.As u suggested saved the cookies as username as pickle file