How to refresh a cookies expired account?
You wanna scrape data behind a login wall, but your account cookies have expired?
In this article, we will see how to refresh a desynchronized account.
Why do you need to refresh your account?
It happens that data is only accessible behind a paywall.
To access this data, we do ask you to synchronize your third-party account with lobstr.io.
In order to ensure seamless browsing as well as complete privacy, we do never save your username or password. Instead, we store your login cookies with our public add-on.
When cookies expire, you need to provide some new login cookies to lobstr.io again.
And we will see how to perform it in this tutorial.
Prerequisites
Be sure to:
- Download the lobstr.io public add-on
- Be logged in on the your third-party account
Download the lobstr.io public add-on
First, be sure you have properly downloaded our lobstr.io public add-on.
We use it to store your login cookies and ensure seamless browsing with your account with no damage to your privacy.
Be logged in on the your third-party account
Be sure to be logged-in on your third-party website account.
- Go on the third-party website e.g. Twitter.
- Login.
Step-by-step Instructions
There is two way to refresh your third-party account cookies:
- Accounts section
- Squid Settings section
Let’s deep-dive in.
Accounts section
To refresh your old account cookies, through the Accounts Section:
- Log in to lobstr.io.
- Navigate to the "Accounts" section.
- Click on "Actions".
- Select "Refresh cookies".
And that’s it!
Squid Settings section
To refresh your old account cookies, through the Squid Settings section:
First, log in to lobstr.io.
Then, pick a squid that requires your account e.g. Twitter User Tweets Scraper if you need to refresh the cookies from a Twitter account.
Click:
- Either on the “here” on the banner
- or on the “Settings” icon
Endly, click on the refresh icon near your account name.
Congrats!
Updated on: 15/04/2025
Thank you!