python webkit webview remember cookies?

Question

I have written a short python script that opens Google music in web view window. however I can't seem to find anything about getting webkit to use cookies so that I don't have to login every time I start it up.

Here's what I have:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import gtk, webkit
import ctypes

libgobject = ctypes.CDLL('/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0')
libwebkit = ctypes.CDLL('/usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so.1')
libsoup = ctypes.CDLL('/usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so.1')
libwebkit = ctypes.CDLL('/usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0')

proxy_uri = libsoup.soup_uri_new('http://tcdproxy.tcd.ie:8080') #proxy urli

session = libwebkit.webkit_get_default_session()
libgobject.g_object_set(session, "proxy-uri", proxy_uri, None)

w = gtk.Window()
w.connect("destroy",w.destroy)
w.set_size_request(1000,600)
w.connect('delete-event', lambda w, event: gtk.main_quit())
s = gtk.ScrolledWindow()
v = webkit.WebView()
s.add(v)
w.add(s)
w.show_all()

v.open('http://music.google.com')
gtk.main()

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks,

Richard

Answer 1

Worked it out, but it required learning more ctypes than I wanted -_-. Try this- I required different library paths, etc than you, so I'll just paste what's relevant.

#remove all cookiejars
generic_cookiejar_type = libgobject.g_type_from_name('SoupCookieJar')
libsoup.soup_session_remove_feature_by_type(session, generic_cookiejar_type)

#and replace with a new persistent jar
cookiejar = libsoup.soup_cookie_jar_text_new('/path/to/your/cookies.txt',False)
libsoup.soup_session_add_feature(session, cookiejar)

The code's pretty self explanatory. There's also a SoupCookieJarSqlite that you might prefer, though I'm sure the text file would be easier for development.

EDIT: actually, the cookie jar removal doesn't seem to be doing anything, so the appropriate snippet is

#add a new persistent cookie jar
cookiejar = libsoup.soup_cookie_jar_text_new('/path/to/your/cookies.txt',False)
libsoup.soup_session_add_feature(session, cookiejar)