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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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