persession

A wrapper on requests session with persistence and login functionalities


Keywords
requests, session, persistent, login, utility, development, crawler, persistence, python3, wrapper
License
MIT
Install
pip install persession==0.1.4

Documentation

PERSESSION (PERsistent SESSION)

A wrapper on requests.Session with following additional functionalities:

  • Persistence: session can be cached in a file for persistence between script runs.
  • Login functionalities: login and is_logged_in functions are available to help logging into sites

Usage

from persession import Session, LoginStatus

base_url = 'https://e.com'
cache_file_path = 'cache.dat'
session = Session(cache_file_path)

is_logged_in = session.is_logged_in()
if not is_logged_in:
    login_url = base_url + '/login'
    data = {'user': 'user', 'password': 'pass'}
    res = session.login(login_url, data)
    if res.login_status != LoginStatus.FAILURE:
        is_logged_in = True
        print('Login success')
    else:
        print('login failed')
if is_logged_in:
    data_url = base_url + '/data'
    res = session.get(data_url)

You can also check out example.py for a detailed example.