Persist a requests session between uses.

save_requests_session.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import pickle
import requests


URL = 'http://foo.com'

# create a session object
session = requests.Session()

# configure the session (optional)
session.auth = ('user', 'pass')

print 'auth before pickle: {}'.format(session.auth)

# use the session to make requests
response = session.get(URL)

# drop the session into a pickle object
session_pickle = pickle.dumps(session)

##
# do what you need to do to persit it somewhere
# e.g. request.session['requests_session'] = session_pickle
##

# when you need to use it again, depickle the object

##
# do what you need to do to get it from storage
# e.g. session_pickle = request.session['requests_session']
##

session = pickle.loads(session_pickle)

print 'auth after pickle: {}'.format(session.auth)

response = session.get(URL)