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Managing Cookies in aiohttp for Effective Web Scraping

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Mar 3, 2024

Properly managing cookies is essential for robust and efficient web scraping with Python aiohttp library. Take control of cookie persistence, security settings, and expiration to build robust crawlers.

Keeping Sessions Active When Websites Log You Out in Python Requests

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 3, 2024

Many websites log users out after inactivity. Python requests library allows session persistence. Tips: set cookie jar, reuse session, implement keep-alive, extract and re-apply session cookie.

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