• Cookie is a piece of information from website and saved by your web browser
• Cookies are a way of remembering users and their interaction with the site by storing information in the cookie file as key value pairs.
• It stores the login information like user name / email and password
• HTTP cookie is also known as a web cookie, a browser cookie or Internet cookie.
• One website cannot access the cookies set by other websites

• Each cookie is associated with a name, value, domain, path, termination, and status of whether it is safe or not. We validate the cookie using selenium, selenium can parse all the cookies
• When testing a web application using the Selenium, you may need to create, update or delete a cookie to check the behavior of the website with and without cookies.
• For example, when you automate e-commerce sites, you will set cookies for logins, products added to carts using cookies and the product you visited in or searched in past days

get_cookies() used to return the list of all cookies stored in the web browser.

# Go to the correct domain
driver.get("https://www.example.com")
# And now output all the available cookies for the current URL
driver.get_cookies()		

get_cookie() used to return the specific cookie according to its name.

driver.get_cookie('foo')			

add_cookie() method is used to create and add the cookie.

# Go to the correct domain
driver.get("https://chercher.tech")
# Now set the cookie. This one's valid for the entire domain
cookie = {‘name’ : ‘foo’, ‘value’ : ‘bar’}
driver.add_cookie(cookie)		

Using delete_cookie() to delete a cookie according to its name.

driver.delete_cookie(“foo�)			

delete_all_cookies() is used to delete all cookies.

								driver.delete_all_cookies()			
								

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