Handling cookies in Selenium Python

In the previous articles on Selenium Python Tutorial, we have covered “How To Handle Web Tables in Selenium Python“. In this tutorial, we will learn Handling Cookies in Selenium Python. 

We can handle cookies with the help of Selenium WebDriver. A cookie refers to some details about our application which is saved by the browser. A cookie monitors the user actions within an application and stores them in the form of key value pairs. For example, login information of a visitor of a website.

We can create, modify, or delete a cookie with Selenium WebDriver to verify the characteristics of an application having and not having a cookie. Let us discuss some of the methods to handle cookies:

add_cookie (n) – This method is capable of adding cookie. The cookie to be added is passed as a parameter[n] to the method.

Syntax:

driver.add_cookie ({ 'name' : 'f', 'value' : 'v'})

get_cookie (n) – This method is used to fetch a cookie with a name that is passed as a parameter[n] to the method.

Syntax:

driver.get_cookie ('f')

get_cookies () – This method without parameter is used to fetch all the cookies from the active session.

Syntax:

driver.get_cookies ()

delete_cookie (n) – This method is used to delete a cookie with a name that is passed as a parameter[n] to the method.

Syntax:

driver.delete_cookie ('f')

delete_all_cookies () – This method without parameter is used to delete all the cookies from the active session.

Syntax:

driver.delete_all_cookies ()

Code Implementation with cookie methods.

#  import the webdriver
from selenium import webdriver
# import the Keys class
from selenium.webdriver.common import keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome (executable_path="C:\\chromedriver.exe")
# get method to launch the URL
driver.get("https://www.softwaretestingmaterial.com/")
# to add cookie
driver.add_cookie ({'name' : 'f', 'value' : 'v'})
# to get cookie with name
print (driver.get_cookie ('f'))
# to get all the cookies
print (driver.get_cookies ())
# to delete a cookie with name
driver.delete_cookie ('f')
# to delete all the cookies
driver.delete_all_cookies ()
#to close the browser
driver.close ()

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