Web Scraping24 min read
Session Handling
Maintain cookies and login sessions while scraping using requests.Session.
David Miller
December 23, 2025
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Some sites need login.
Sessions keep cookies between requests.
Using Session
import requests
s = requests.Session()
s.post("https://example.com/login", data={
"user": "abc",
"pass": "123"
})
res = s.get("https://example.com/dashboard")
print(res.text)
Flow
flowchart LR
A[Login] --> B[Session]
B --> C[Authenticated Requests]
Remember
- Session keeps state
- Needed for logged pages
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