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

veryangryman

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

Python ChromeDriver is what im using btw

Talisman

Is the curl request a POST or GET?

veryangryman

Login CURL is POST.

Talisman

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

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

Jim2007

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

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