1. Load login page
   
2. Post user email
   
3. Post user password
   
4. Retrieve auth token
   

python:


with self.session.post(self.config.get('login_url'),verify=False,headers=self.login_headers,data=self.login_form_data) as r:

    r.raise_for_status()

    if r.ok and isinstance(r.text,str) and 'Successful login' in r.text:

        self.logged_in = True

        xbmc.log(msg='User is logged in',level=xbmc.LOGDEBUG)

        if isinstance(r.cookies.get_dict(),dict) and all([x in r.cookies.get_dict().keys() for x in ['logged-in-sig', 'logged-in-user']]):

            user_cookie = {'cookie':r.cookies.get_dict(),'expires':max([x.expires for x in r.cookies]),'domain':next(iter([x.domain for x in r.cookies]),None)}

            self.config.files.get('user_cookie').write_text(json.dumps(user_cookie))

            xbmc.log(msg='User session cookie set, expires at: {}'.format(time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',time.localtime(user_cookie.get('expires')))),level=xbmc.LOGDEBUG)

python:


def load_previous_cookie(self):

    user_cookie = None

    if self.config.files.get('user_cookie').exists():

        try:

            user_cookie = json.loads(self.config.files.get('user_cookie').read_text())

        except Exception as exc:

            xbmc.log(msg='Cookie read error: {}'.format(exc),level=xbmc.LOGERROR)

    if isinstance(user_cookie,dict) and isinstance(user_cookie.get('cookie'),dict) and isinstance(user_cookie.get('expires'),int) and user_cookie.get('expires')>time.time():

        for k,v in user_cookie.get('cookie').items():

            self.session.cookies.set(k,v,domain=user_cookie.get('domain'))

        xbmc.log(msg='Cookie loaded from previous session',level=xbmc.LOGDEBUG)

    else:

        if self.config.files.get('user_cookie').exists():

            self.config.files.get('user_cookie').unlink()

            xbmc.log(msg='Cookie deleted from previous session (expired or malformed)',level=xbmc.LOGDEBUG)

XML:
<!-- Using dots in the ID like with "user.cookies" is just a convention. Use anything that XML accepts. -->

<setting id="user.cookies" label="Hidden User Cookies" type="text" visible="false" default="" />

Python:
from xbmcaddon import Addon

ADDON = Addon()

# Reading it (defaults to the default value set in the XML).

orangeTVCookies = ADDON.getSetting('user.cookies')

# Writing it.

ADDON.setSetting('user.cookies', orangeTVCookies + 'asdf')

(2024-09-29, 01:05)BreizhReloaded Wrote: I read a lot about that requests library, I didn't know I could actually use it within Kodi. How do I tell Kodi to load a library I would normally fetch with pip?

(2024-09-29, 01:05)BreizhReloaded Wrote: I never thought about storing data within settings either, that's very cleaver. And I just understood about settings levels. I learnt so much in two posts guys, big thanks, really. That made my day!

settings with pickle:
def settings(setting, value = None):

    # Get or add addon setting

    if value:

        xbmcaddon.Addon().setSetting(setting, value)

    else:

        return xbmcaddon.Addon().getSetting(setting)  





saved_servers = settings('saved_servers')

if len(saved_servers) < 5 or saved_servers == 'none' or force:

    srvrlist = ssdp.discover("urnchemas-upnp-org:device:MediaServer:1", timeout=timeoutval)

    servers = onlyDiscMezzmo(srvrlist)

    # save the servers for faster loading

    settings('saved_servers', pickle.dumps(servers,0,fix_imports=True))

else:

    saved_servers = saved_servers.encode('utf-8')

    servers = pickle.loads(saved_servers, fix_imports=True)

(2024-10-14, 18:19)Roman_V_M Wrote: Cookies have many properties beyond name and value.

(2024-10-14, 18:19)Roman_V_M Wrote: Also in case of requests no need to play with headers, requests can accept cookies as dict.