How to get the cookie value in Playwright Java?

Cookies are small pieces of data stored in a user’s web browser while browsing a website. Cookies can be used for various purposes, such as identifying users, storing user preferences, and tracking user activity.

This article will focus on getting a cookie value in Playwright using Java.

Create a BrowserContext and a new Page

We can create a new browser context using the browser.newContext() and a new page using the browserContext.newPage() method.

import com.microsoft.playwright.Browser;
import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserContext;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Page;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright;

public class CodekruTest {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		Playwright playwright = Playwright.create();
		Browser browser = playwright.chromium().launch();

		// creating a BrowserContext
		BrowserContext browserContext = browser.newContext();

		// Creating a new Page
		Page page = browserContext.newPage();

        // code

		// closing the instances
		browser.close();
		playwright.close();

	}

}
Navigating to the URL

Please go to the website address for which you need to retrieve the cookies.

page.navigate("https://testkru.com/Elements/TextFields");
Get all cookies

BrowserContext provides us with a cookies() method that returns all cookies associated with all pages of the browser context.

List<Cookie> cookies = browserContext.cookies();
Get a particular cookie value

We can then iterate through all the cookies and select the one we want.

		for (Cookie cookie : cookies) {
			if (cookie.name.contains("your_cookie_name")) {
				System.out.println("Cookie name: " + cookie.name);
				System.out.println("Cookie value: " + cookie.value);
			}

		}
Get cookies from a particular URL

A BrowserContext can have multiple pages. Using browserContext.cookies() retrieves cookies from all the pages, but we can also retrieve the cookies from a single page by using browserContext.cookies(url).

import com.microsoft.playwright.Browser;
import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserContext;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Page;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright;
import com.microsoft.playwright.options.Cookie;

public class CodekruTest {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		Playwright playwright = Playwright.create();
		Browser browser = playwright.chromium().launch();

		// creating a BrowserContext
		BrowserContext browserContext = browser.newContext();

		// Creating new Pages
		Page page1 = browserContext.newPage();
		Page page2 = browserContext.newPage();

		page1.navigate("https://testkru.com/Elements/TextFields");
		page2.navigate("https://www.makemytrip.com");

		List<Cookie> cookies = browserContext.cookies("https://www.makemytrip.com");

		for (Cookie cookie : cookies) {
			System.out.println("Cookie name: " + cookie.name);
			System.out.println("Cookie value: " + cookie.value);
		}

		// closing the instances
		browser.close();
		playwright.close();

	}

}

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