How do I save a Netscape style cookies.txt file using Python 2.7 and Requests?

Question

I am using requests to fetch a webpage and I would like to save the cookies in a Netscape-style cookies.txt file. How can I achieve this? I have tried the following:

import requests
import cookielib

url = 'http://www.yahoo.com'
ua = ("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) "
      "Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0")
headers = {'user-agent': ua}

mcj = cookielib.MozillaCookieJar()
requests.get(url, headers=headers, cookies=mcj)
mcj.save('cookies.txt')
print open('cookies.txt').read()

but it just creates a cookie file with no cookies, so the output is:

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
# This is a generated file!  Do not edit.

Hi, thanks for still looking into this. >>> print requests.__version__ 1.2.0 >>> print requests.__build__ 66048 — Holy Mackerel, May 17 '13 at 12:37

Piotr Dobrogost · Answer 1 · 2013-06-04T23:05:25.450

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Cookies sent by server are in the cookies attribute of response object; see documentation of requests.Response class.

edited Jun 04 '13 at 23:05

answered May 16 '13 at 21:00

Piotr Dobrogost

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@HolyMackerel I changed my answer. – Piotr Dobrogost Jun 04 '13 at 23:06
Thank you, I removed my comments. – Holy Mackerel Jun 16 '13 at 02:02

How do I save a Netscape style cookies.txt file using Python 2.7 and Requests?

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