Working with cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent from a website and stored in your computer. Cookies are mostly used to recognise the user and load the stored information.

WebDriver API provides a way to interact with cookies with built-in methods:

It is used to add a cookie to the current browsing context. Add Cookie only accepts a set of defined serializable JSON object. Here is the link to the list of accepted JSON key values

First of all, you need to be on the domain that the cookie will be valid for. If you are trying to preset cookies before you start interacting with a site and your homepage is large / takes a while to load an alternative is to find a smaller page on the site (typically the 404 page is small, e.g. http://example.com/some404page)

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	      driver.get("https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/blank.html");
	      // Add cookie into current browser context
	      driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("key", "value"));

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import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
import org.openqa.selenium.Cookie;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.Set;

public class CookiesTest {

	WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
	@Test
	  public void addCookie() {
	      driver.get("https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/blank.html");
	      // Add cookie into current browser context
	      driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("key", "value"));
	      driver.quit();
	}
	    @Test
	    public void getNamedCookie() {
	     
	        driver.get("https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/blank.html");
	        // Add cookie into current browser context
	        driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("foo", "bar"));
	        // Get cookie details with named cookie 'foo'
	        Cookie cookie = driver.manage().getCookieNamed("foo");
	        Assertions.assertEquals(cookie.getValue(), "bar");
	     
	        driver.quit();
	      }
	  

	    @Test
	    public void getAllCookies() {
	      
	        driver.get("https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/blank.html");
	        // Add cookies into current browser context
	        driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("test1", "cookie1"));
	        driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("test2", "cookie2"));
	        // Get cookies
	        Set<Cookie> cookies = driver.manage().getCookies();
	         for (Cookie cookie : cookies) {
	            if (cookie.getName().equals("test1")) {
	                Assertions.assertEquals(cookie.getValue(), "cookie1");
	            }

	            if (cookie.getName().equals("test2")) {
	                Assertions.assertEquals(cookie.getValue(), "cookie2");
	            }
	         }
	         driver.quit();
	      }
	   

	    @Test
	    public void deleteCookieNamed() {
	     
	        driver.get("https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/blank.html");
	        driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("test1", "cookie1"));
	        // delete cookie named
	        driver.manage().deleteCookieNamed("test1");
	        driver.quit();
	    }

	    @Test
	    public void deleteCookieObject() {
	     
	        driver.get("https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/blank.html");
	        Cookie cookie = new Cookie("test2", "cookie2");
	        driver.manage().addCookie(cookie);
	        /*
	        Selenium Java bindings also provides a way to delete
	        cookie by passing cookie object of current browsing context
	        */
	        driver.manage().deleteCookie(cookie);
	      
	        driver.quit();
	      }
	  

	    @Test
	    public void deleteAllCookies() {
	     
	        driver.get("https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/blank.html");
	        // Add cookies into current browser context
	        driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("test1", "cookie1"));
	        driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("test2", "cookie2"));
	        // Delete All cookies
	        driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();
	     
	        driver.quit();
	      }

		  @Test
		  public void sameSiteCookie() {
		    driver.get("http://www.example.com");

     	    Cookie cookie = new Cookie.Builder("key", "value").sameSite("Strict").build();
            Cookie cookie1 = new Cookie.Builder("key", "value").sameSite("Lax").build();

            driver.manage().addCookie(cookie);
            driver.manage().addCookie(cookie1);

            System.out.println(cookie.getSameSite());
            System.out.println(cookie1.getSameSite());

			driver.quit();
		  }
}

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