Set cookies with cheerio

I switched from playwright to cheerio because of familiarity and cannot figure out how to set cookies (specifically for auth).

In playwright I did

ontext.page.context().addCookies

ontext.page.context().addCookies

. How do I do this in cheerio?

Lukas Krivka•11/25/23, 8:11 AM

One option is to simply add them to as

cookie

cookie

string either during enqueueing or preNavigationHooks.

Second option is to do it through session as https://crawlee.dev/api/core/class/Session#setCookies. This needs to be done in

preNavigationHooks

preNavigationHooks

because you don't have the attached session in enqueueing yet

Session | API | Crawlee

Sessions are used to store information such as cookies and can be used for generating fingerprints and proxy sessions.
You can imagine each session as a specific user, with its own cookies, IP (via proxy) and potentially a unique browser fingerprint.
Session internal state can be enriched with custom user data for example some authorization toke...

spotty-amberOP•11/25/23, 3:56 PM

That's what I was looking for, thanks!