How to setting cookie in clj-http?

Question

For example, I need to parse data from my imdb.com account. So, the task is get currently logged page. I taken the "id" cookie from browser. And make GET request, but it doesn't works.

(ns imdb.core
  (:require [clj-http.client :as client])
(def ^:dynamic *base-url* "http://www.imdb.com/")
(def id {"id" {:value "my_value"
               :domain "imdb.com"
               :secure true
               :max-age 3600}})
(defn get-my-page []
  (client/get *base-url* {:cookies id}))

I think I need to set my id cookie to clj-http.cookies/cookie-store. But how?

Answer 1

clj-http provides clj-http.cookies namespace which you need to use.

You can setup your cookie store, then call clj-http.cookies/add-cookie with your cookie extracted from browser and finally clj-http.client/get with setting :cookie-store.

On the other hand you might just maintain cookies across multiple HTTP calls as described in the documentation and just call the login page from clj-http directly. It will make your logic repeatable without manual steps like copying cookies from browser.