Add a Cookie – Selenium Java

Add a Cookie

To add a cookie using Selenium for Java, call manage().addCookie() on the WebDriver object and pass the Cookie object as argument to the addCookie() method.

The following is a simple code snippet to add a cookie named "dummy" with value "xyz123".

driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("dummy", "xyz123"));

where driver is a WebDriver object. Cookie() constructor can take the key and value as arguments to create a cookie object.

This method call returns void.

Example

In the following program, we write Selenium Java code to visit Wikipedia Home Page, and add the Cookie with key-value pair (“dummy”, “xyz123”).

Java Program

import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class MyAppTest {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/usr/local/bin/chromedriver");
		WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
		
		try {
			driver.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page");
			driver.manage().addCookie(new Cookie("dummy", "xyz123"));
			System.out.println("Cookies : \n" + driver.manage().getCookies());
		} finally {
			driver.quit();
		}
	}
}

Output

Cookies : 
[dummy=xyz123; path=/; domain=en.wikipedia.org;secure;, GeoIP=IN:TG:Hyderabad:17.43:78.51:v4; path=/; domain=.wikipedia.org;secure;, WMF-Last-Access-Global=26-Jun-2022; expires=Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:30:20 IST; path=/; domain=.wikipedia.org;secure;, WMF-Last-Access=26-Jun-2022; expires=Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:30:20 IST; path=/; domain=en.wikipedia.org;secure;]

Screenshot

As you may notice, other values in the cookie like path and domain are set to default values for the cookie.