Cookies

Cookies are generally stored in a web browser to identify the user's activity when browsing a web page. Selenium WebDriver handles web browser cookies by finding, deleting, modifying, and adding the cookies. It provides an excellent mechanism to modify cookies for high-level automation testing. Let's discuss Selenium WebDriver cookies, as follows:

• The getCookies() method returns cookies present in a loaded page. The following is the syntax for this function:

  driver.manage().getCookies();

  Some of the useful tasks that you can perform with the help of getCookies() function are discussed as follows:

  Return cookies: The getCookies() method captures all the cookies generated in a web page. Let's see a model to get to know how we can return the entire cookie ID and expiry date and time and the domain name of each and every cookie:

  driver.get("https://www.google.co.in");
  System.out.println(driver.manage().getCookies());

  • The following piece of code lets you explain how to get all the cookies in...