How to get expiry date from cookies?

Question

I am trying to parse the cookies from a website set by the Set-Cookie header for their expiry period. I am using the requests library and this is how far I've progressed:

import requests

req = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
if req.cookies:
    for cook in req.cookies:
        if cook.expires: # checking the expires flag
            print('Cookie Expiry Time: %s' % (cook.expires))

However, cook.expires returns a value incomprehendible, something like 2181183994 and 1550035594. What needs to be done next to get the exact date time value from the expires flag?

Answer 1

The cook.expires value you're getting is a timestamp value. You just need to use fromtimestamp() from the datetime library to resolve this. Here is your code:

import requests
from datetime import datetime

req = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
if req.cookies:
   for cook in req.cookies:
       if cook.expires: # checking the expires flag
           print(datetime.fromtimestamp(cook.expires))

For example, if your url is https://github.com, you get it in the human readable format:

2039-02-13 10:30:14 # expiry date for first cookie
2019-02-13 11:30:14 # expiry date for second cookie