Class: Cookies

Class: Cookies

Query and modify a session’s cookies.

Process: Main
This class is not exported from the 'electron' module. It is only available as a return value of other methods in the Electron API.

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({})
  .then((cookies) => {
    console.log(cookies)
  }).catch((error) => {
    console.log(error)
  })
// Query all cookies associated with a specific url.
session.defaultSession.cookies.get({ url: 'http://www.github.com' })
  .then((cookies) => {
    console.log(cookies)
  }).catch((error) => {
    console.log(error)
  })
// 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)
  .then(() => {
    // success
  }, (error) => {
    console.error(error)
  })

Instance Events

The following events are available on instances of Cookies:

Event: ‘changed’

Returns:

• 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)

• 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.

Returns Promise<Cookie[]> - A promise which resolves an array of cookie objects.

Sends a request to get all cookies matching filter, and resolves a promise with the response.

cookies.set(details)

• details Object
  • url String - The URL to associate the cookie with. The promise will be rejected if the URL is invalid.
  • 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; this will be normalized with a preceding dot so that it’s also valid for subdomains. 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 unless Same Site=None attribute is used.
  • 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.
  • sameSite String (optional) - The Same Site policy to apply to this cookie. Can be unspecified, no_restriction, lax or strict. Default is lax.

Returns Promise<void> - A promise which resolves when the cookie has been set

Sets a cookie with details.

cookies.remove(url, name)

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

Returns Promise<void> - A promise which resolves when the cookie has been removed

Removes the cookies matching url and name

cookies.flushStore()

Returns Promise<void> - A promise which resolves when the cookie store has been flushed

Writes any unwritten cookies data to disk.