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can I login to a site and collect the cookie?
While Pipedream does use cookies for various purposes such as remembering your preferences and identifying your device for security reasons, it doesn’t support logging into a site and collecting the cookie directly. However, you can use the axios HTTP client available in Pipedream’s Node.js environment to send HTTP requests, which can include actions like logging into a site. If the site sets a cookie in the response, axios should include that in the set-cookie header of the response. Here’s a basic example of how you might do this: ```
import { axios } from “@pipedream/platform”; export default { props: { url: { type: “string”, label: “URL to make request to”, }, username: { type: “string”, label: “Username”, }, password: { type: “string”, label: “Password”, }, }, async run({ $ }) { const response = await axios($, { method: “POST”, url: this.url, data: { username: this.username, password: this.password, }, }); const cookies = response.headers[‘set-cookie’]; return cookies; }, };
: It’s also possible to use Puppeteer to grab the cookie from a website.
That cookie can then be used to send subsequent HTTP requests to that site.
Yes, you can use Puppeteer in Pipedream to interact with a website and extract cookies. Here’s an example of how you might do this: import { puppeteer } from "@pipedreamhq/platform"; export default { async run({ $ }) { const browser = await puppeteer.browser(); const page = await browser.newPage(); await page.goto('https://example.com'); // replace with your URL // If the site sets cookies after some interaction, perform that here // For example, to fill out a form you might do: // await page.type('#username', 'my username'); // await page.type('#password', 'my password'); // await page.click('#submit'); // await page.waitForNavigation(); const cookies = await page.cookies(); await browser.close(); return cookies; }, }; This component opens a new Puppeteer browser, navigates to a URL, and then retrieves the cookies set by that page. If the site sets cookies after some interaction (like logging in), you can use Puppeteer’s API to perform that interaction. Once you have the cookies, you can use them in subsequent HTTP requests. Here’s an example of how you might do this with the axios HTTP client: import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"; export default { props: { cookies: { type: "string", label: "Cookies", }, url: { type: "string", label: "URL to make request to", }, }, async run({ $ }) { const response = await axios($, { method: "GET", url: this.url, headers: { Cookie: this.cookies, }, }); return response; }, }; This component sends a GET request to the URL you specify, including the cookies you provide in the Cookie header. You would replace 'my cookies' with the actual cookies you got from the Puppeteer step. Please note that these are basic examples and might not work for all sites. The specifics of how you log in, how the server sets cookies, and how you need to include those cookies in subsequent requests can vary. You might need to adjust this code to fit your specific use case.