How to retrieve cookies from Guzzle client?

Question

How can I retrieve the cookies from a Guzzle request / client, after a request has occurred?

$client = new Client([
    'base_uri' => 'www.google.com',
]);
$response = $client->request('GET', '/');

Look here: http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/quickstart.html#cookies — Marios Hadjimichael, Jul 11 '17 at 01:22
I've tried that but it appears the file just remains an empty json array `[]`. — Chris Stryczynski, Jul 11 '17 at 07:31
You should make sure you're in the right scope. for closures, you can say `function() use($someArray){}` to pass in a reference of that array. (make the array before this!) — Marios Hadjimichael, Jul 11 '17 at 14:36
Also please post what you've already tried so that we can work off that :) — Marios Hadjimichael, Jul 11 '17 at 14:55

score 33 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 12 '17 at 09:45

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Read the docs, please. You have to use CookieJar class to work with cookies.

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client(['cookies' => true]);
$r = $client->request('GET', 'http://httpbin.org/cookies');

$cookieJar = $client->getConfig('cookies');
$cookieJar->toArray();

answered Jul 12 '17 at 09:45

Alexey Shokov

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Thank you for the answer. To be fair, the documentation doesn't mention how to access cookies from Guzzle. Only how to provide a CookieJar instance to a request. It doesn't even explain how to interact with a CookieJar instance. – kfriend Jun 04 '18 at 19:15
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`getConfig` is deprecated by now. – Amit Shah Jan 05 '23 at 04:51

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '22 at 19:07

just updating this post.

In Guzzle version 8.0, the getConfig() method will be @deprecated. Read the docs.

You can get cookies, from sample code:

$client = new Client([
        'base_uri' => 'YOUR_URI',
    ]);
    
$response = $client->post('PATH');

$headerSetCookies = $response->getHeader('Set-Cookie');

$cookies = [];
foreach ($headerSetCookies as $key => $header) {
    $cookie = SetCookie::fromString($header);
    $cookie->setDomain('YOUR_DOMAIN');

    $cookies[] = $cookie;
}

$cookieJar = new CookieJar(false, $cookies);

For use, then:

$client->post('PATH', [
    'cookies' => $cookieJar
]);

score -2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 14 '21 at 17:05

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You can also get the CookieJar from the response like this:

$client = new Client([
    'base_uri' => 'www.google.com',
    'cookies'  => true,
]);
$response = $client->request('GET', '/');
$cookieJar = $response->cookies();
$cookieArray = $cookieJar->->toArray();

answered Dec 14 '21 at 17:05

Adam

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I don't think there is a cookies() function. Perhaps there once was but now removed? I am also looking through version 7 source code and don't see one in addition to testing it and getting an error thrown about no such method existing. Just mentioning this in case anyone else tries using that method. Also the docs are pretty vague and not very clear. Even the comments in the source code of the Cookie classes are almost non-existent. In other parts the comments are very verbose and clear. Not sure why they skimped on Cookie code. – C Miller Nov 30 '22 at 18:04

How to retrieve cookies from Guzzle client?

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