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Mastering Sessions Cookies with Python Requests

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 22, 2023

Cookies and sessions are essential for effective web scraping. Python's Requests library makes it easy to leverage sessions and cookies for robust scraping. Learn how to create a session, persist cookies, set custom cookies, and more. By mastering session techniques, you can scrape complex sites requiring authentication and state management.

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