Using a token (obtained from curl) inside a selenium chromedriver object to bypass UI login

veryangryman · 04-08-2022 12:41pm #1

I obtain my token using a curl to login to the system

Now i want to reuse his token in my driver object. Is there any way to do this?

Similarly if i use the UI to login, is there any way the driver can save the session token?

Note that cookies are (most likely) not the solution I am looking for

veryangryman · 04-08-2022 12:41pm

Python ChromeDriver is what im using btw

Talisman · 05-08-2022 9:27am

Is the curl request a POST or GET?

veryangryman · 05-08-2022 9:29am

Login CURL is POST.

Talisman · 05-08-2022 10:10am

Why not use the requests library instead of curl? You can observe the change in the cookies before and after the post request.

import requests
session = requests.Session()

post_url     = 'https://domain-name.com/path-to-post-to'
post_payload = { 'key' : 'value' }
post_headers = {}

print(session.cookies.get_dict())

response = session.post(post_url, data=post_payload, headers=post_headers)

print(response.status_code)
print(session.cookies.get_dict())

veryangryman · 08-08-2022 9:45am

Ok thanks. How do i then reuse this sesson in the Chromedriver object so that i can test the UI

Jim2007 · 10-08-2022 9:15am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119443788#Comment_119443788

You can't or should not be able to reuse a session, it a security check and it should not be possible to get past it.

Talisman · 11-08-2022 10:24am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119443788#Comment_119443788

You don't have to reuse the session. The cookie information can be added to the webdriver using the add_cookie method.

The code for a solution has been provided in answer to a question on Stackoverflow.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73233835/chromedriver-how-to-obtain-login-session-for-later-bypass-of-login-in-python/73273611

Using a token (obtained from curl) inside a selenium chromedriver object to bypass UI login

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