request-persistent

A simple module to add a toJSON function and a fromJSON function to cookie jars created with request.jar().

usage

var fs = require('fs');
var request('request');
require('request-persistent')(request);
var jar;
if (fs.existsSync('cookies.json')) {
  jar = request.jar.fromJSON(fs.readFileSync('cookies.json'));
  // can also be an object, request.jar.fromJSON(require('./cookies')) would work
} else {
  jar = request.jar();
}
request({
  jar: jar
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'http://website.com/login',
  form: {
    user: 'username',
    pass: 'password'
  },
}, function (err, resp, body) {
  fs.writeFileSync('cookies.json', jar.toJSON());
});