My expectation was something would get added to the cookeies array automatically after validation but that isn't the case.
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
whatsapp_url = "https://web.whatsapp.com"
driver.get(whatsapp_url)
print(driver.get_cookies())
time.sleep(30) # We are doing the manual QR code verification here
print(driver.get_cookies())
driver.get_cookies() is empty before and after as well
Try this:
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions();
options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=./User_Data')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get('https://web.whatsapp.com/')
You need to login first time. It'll work always when you have to store your session. No need to import/export cookies.
I couldn't comment Abhi Bhalgami answer but I need to made some changes based on another post:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chromepath = r'E:\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe'
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromepath, chrome_options=options)
https://pt.stackoverflow.com/questions/241604/salva-o-estado-ou-os-cookies-do-navegador-utilizando-o-selenium
This worked fine for me! I
import os
from selenium import webdriver
dir_path = os.getcwd()
profile = os.path.join(dir_path, "profile", "wpp")
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument(
r"user-data-dir={}".format(profile))
browser = webdriver.Chrome("./chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=options)
browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com")
am not sure but You can save your current cookies using pickle, For example:
import pickle
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
pickle.dump( driver.get_cookies() , open("cookies.pkl","wb"))
after that add them back using this code:
import pickle
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
cookies = pickle.load(open("cookies.pkl", "rb"))
for cookie in cookies:
driver.add_cookie(cookie)
Web Whatsapp stores sessions in IndexedDB and sync those values to local storage.
Here is the working code you can try: tithiwa/session.py by using this javascript code
