{"id":14122,"date":"2024-03-15T08:29:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T08:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-selenium-retrieve-and-store-cookies\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:09:47","slug":"how-can-selenium-retrieve-and-store-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-selenium-retrieve-and-store-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Selenium: Get &#038; Save Cookies Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To access and store cookies, you can utilize the get_cookies() method in Selenium to fetch all the current page&#8217;s cookies and store them in a variable. Afterwards, you can save these cookies to a file for later use in sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example code using Python and Selenium to retrieve and save Cookies.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">from<\/span> selenium <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> webdriver\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u542f\u52a8\u6d4f\u89c8\u5668<\/span>\r\ndriver = webdriver.Chrome()\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u8bbf\u95ee\u7f51\u9875<\/span>\r\ndriver.get(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"https:\/\/www.example.com\"<\/span>)\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u83b7\u53d6\u5e76\u6253\u5370\u5f53\u524d\u9875\u9762\u7684\u6240\u6709Cookies<\/span>\r\ncookies = driver.get_cookies()\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> cookie <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> cookies:\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(cookie)\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u4fdd\u5b58Cookies\u5230\u6587\u4ef6<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">with<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">open<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"cookies.txt\"<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"w\"<\/span>) <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">as<\/span> f:\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> cookie <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> cookies:\r\n        f.write(<span class=\"hljs-string\">f\"<span class=\"hljs-subst\">{cookie[<span class=\"hljs-string\">'name'<\/span>]}<\/span>=<span class=\"hljs-subst\">{cookie[<span class=\"hljs-string\">'value'<\/span>]}<\/span>; \"<\/span>)\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u5173\u95ed\u6d4f\u89c8\u5668<\/span>\r\ndriver.quit()\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, we first launched the Chrome browser and accessed a webpage. Next, we used the get_cookies() method to retrieve all the Cookies from the current page and saved them in a variable. Then, we saved these Cookies to a text file in the format of name=value for each Cookie. Finally, we closed the browser.<\/p>\n<p>You can use the add_cookie() method to add these cookies to the browser when you need to load them in future conversations. Here is an example code for loading cookies:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">from<\/span> selenium <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> webdriver\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u542f\u52a8\u6d4f\u89c8\u5668<\/span>\r\ndriver = webdriver.Chrome()\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u8bbf\u95ee\u7f51\u9875<\/span>\r\ndriver.get(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"https:\/\/www.example.com\"<\/span>)\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u52a0\u8f7dCookies<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">with<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">open<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"cookies.txt\"<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"r\"<\/span>) <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">as<\/span> f:\r\n    cookies = f.read().strip().split(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"; \"<\/span>)\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> cookie <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> cookies:\r\n        name, value = cookie.split(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"=\"<\/span>)\r\n        driver.add_cookie({<span class=\"hljs-string\">'name'<\/span>: name, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'value'<\/span>: value})\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u91cd\u65b0\u5237\u65b0\u9875\u9762<\/span>\r\ndriver.refresh()\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u5173\u95ed\u6d4f\u89c8\u5668<\/span>\r\ndriver.quit()\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, we first launch the Chrome browser and visit a webpage. We then load previously saved cookies from a file and add them to the browser using the add_cookie() method. Finally, we refresh the page to make the new cookies effective and close the browser.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To access and store cookies, you can utilize the get_cookies() method in Selenium to fetch all the current page&#8217;s cookies and store them in a variable. Afterwards, you can save these cookies to a file for later use in sessions. 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