I'm trying to authenticate on a website using python requests.
I use a Chrome extension named cookie.txt to save the cookies file from a Chrome session on the website I want to authenticate on.
When I use following wget command
wget -O hp.html -x --load-cookies cookies.txt http://www.thewebsite.com
It works: I get the webpage with authenticated content
But when I try to do the same thing using Python Requests package with
import cookielib
import requests
cj = cookielib.MozillaCookieJar('cookies.txt')
cj.load()
url = 'http://www.thewebsite.com'
r = requests.get(url, cookies=cj)
I get an error 400 status
Is there something I'm doing wrong ?
