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Class: Cookies

Query and modify a session's cookies.

Process: Main

Instances of the Cookies class are accessed by using cookies property of a Session.

For example:

const {session} = require('electron')
  
  // Query all cookies.
  session.defaultSession.cookies.get({}, (error, cookies) => {
    console.log(error, cookies)
  })
  
  // Query all cookies associated with a specific url.
  session.defaultSession.cookies.get({url: 'http://www.github.com'}, (error, cookies) => {
    console.log(error, cookies)
  })
  
  // Set a cookie with the given cookie data;
  // may overwrite equivalent cookies if they exist.
  const cookie = {url: 'http://www.github.com', name: 'dummy_name', value: 'dummy'}
  session.defaultSession.cookies.set(cookie, (error) => {
    if (error) console.error(error)
  })

Instance Events

The following events are available on instances of Cookies:

Event: 'changed'

  • event Event
  • cookie Cookie - The cookie that was changed.
  • cause String - The cause of the change with one of the following values:

    • explicit - The cookie was changed directly by a consumer's action.
    • overwrite - The cookie was automatically removed due to an insert operation that overwrote it.
    • expired - The cookie was automatically removed as it expired.
    • evicted - The cookie was automatically evicted during garbage collection.
    • expired-overwrite - The cookie was overwritten with an already-expired expiration date.
  • removed Boolean - true if the cookie was removed, false otherwise.

Emitted when a cookie is changed because it was added, edited, removed, or expired.

Instance Methods

The following methods are available on instances of Cookies:

cookies.get(filter, callback)

  • filter Object

    • url String (optional) - Retrieves cookies which are associated with url. Empty implies retrieving cookies of all urls.
    • name String (optional) - Filters cookies by name.
    • domain String (optional) - Retrieves cookies whose domains match or are subdomains of domains.
    • path String (optional) - Retrieves cookies whose path matches path.
    • secure Boolean (optional) - Filters cookies by their Secure property.
    • session Boolean (optional) - Filters out session or persistent cookies.
  • callback Function

    • error Error
    • cookies Cookie[] - an array of cookie objects.

Sends a request to get all cookies matching filter, callback will be called with callback(error, cookies) on complete.

cookies.set(details, callback)

  • details Object

    • url String - The url to associate the cookie with.
    • name String (optional) - The name of the cookie. Empty by default if omitted.
    • value String (optional) - The value of the cookie. Empty by default if omitted.
    • domain String (optional) - The domain of the cookie. Empty by default if omitted.
    • path String (optional) - The path of the cookie. Empty by default if omitted.
    • secure Boolean (optional) - Whether the cookie should be marked as Secure. Defaults to false.
    • httpOnly Boolean (optional) - Whether the cookie should be marked as HTTP only. Defaults to false.
    • expirationDate Double (optional) - The expiration date of the cookie as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. If omitted then the cookie becomes a session cookie and will not be retained between sessions.
  • callback Function

    • error Error

Sets a cookie with details, callback will be called with callback(error) on complete.

cookies.remove(url, name, callback)

  • url String - The URL associated with the cookie.
  • name String - The name of cookie to remove.
  • callback Function

Removes the cookies matching url and name, callback will called with callback() on complete.

cookies.flushStore(callback)

  • callback Function

Writes any unwritten cookies data to disk.

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Licensed under the MIT license.
https://electronjs.org/docs/api/cookies