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 details, 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.