diff --git a/microsoft/getting-forms-responses.md b/microsoft/getting-forms-responses.md
index e64d6a00d9a1316b9f2963da8530699b60d34acf..5a245b19dd672df37f96defbd784f19eaf26d665 100644
--- a/microsoft/getting-forms-responses.md
+++ b/microsoft/getting-forms-responses.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 # Getting MS Forms Responses from Python
 
-To save you having to keep going to MS Forms to download the spreadsheet if you have a form you need to check often.
+To save you having to keep going to MS Forms to download the spreadsheet if you have a form you need to check often. You might have to point your browser at MS Forms first though, just to get the cookies.
 
 ## 1. Get Your Form ID
 
@@ -17,35 +17,14 @@ Let's call this `FORM_ID` from now on
 
 If you have logged into MS Forms recently, you'll have some cookies in your browser you can use to get in. You can use these cookies in a Python script using the `browser_cookie3` library. I'll use `browser_cookie3.firefox()` to get FireFox cookies. You might want `browser_cookie3.chrome()` or any of the other ones it supports.
 
-The important cookies are `AADAuth.forms`, `OIDCAuth.forms`, and `FormsWebSessionId` in the domain `forms.office.com` (except `AADAuth.forms` which has domain `.forms.office.com`…).
+The important cookies are `AADAuth.forms`, `OIDCAuth.forms`, and `FormsWebSessionId` in the domain `forms.office.com` (except `AADAuth.forms` which has domain `.forms.office.com`…), but you don't need to worry about that.
 
 To get the cookies you can use the code below.
 
     import browser_cookie3
-
-    FORMS_DOMAINS = set([
-        "forms.office.com",
-        ".forms.office.com", # oh microsoft
-    ])
-    FORMS_COOKIES = set([
-        "AADAuth.forms",
-        "FormsWebSessionId",
-        "OIDCAuth.forms"
-    ])
-
     cookie_jar = browser_cookie3.firefox()
-    cookies = {
-        c.name : c.value
-        for c in cookie_jar
-        if c.name in FORMS_COOKIES and c.domain in FORMS_DOMAINS
-    }
-
-And check if something went wrong:
 
-    if len(cookies) < len(FORMS_COOKIES):
-        raise Exception(
-            f"Missing forms cookies, please make sure you are logged in."
-        )
+You can check the cookie jar contains the cookies above if you want, and raise an error if it does not.
 
 ## 3. Getting the Responses
 
@@ -55,13 +34,13 @@ We get the responses from a URL that includes the `FORM_ID`.
         "https://forms.office.com/formapi/DownloadExcelFile.ashx?formid=" \
         + FORM_ID
 
-To get the responses we'll use a GET with the requests library. The response (if successful -- status code 200) will contain an Excel spreadsheet in its content.
+To get the responses we'll use a GET with the requests library. The response (if successful -- status code 200) will contain an Excel spreadsheet in its content. If the response is not successful, it's probably because you're not logged into MS Forms.
 
     import requests
 
-    resp = requests.get(RESPONSES_URL, cookies=cookies)
+    resp = requests.get(RESPONSES_URL, cookies=cookie_jar)
     if resp.status_code != 200:
-        raise Exception("Getting responses failed!")
+        raise Exception("Getting responses failed, try logging in to MS Forms again")
 
 ## 4. Using the Responses