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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Dec 05, 2022 1 min read [\#playwright](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/playwright) 

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When web scraping, we might want to pause our scraping session by saving cookies and resume it later. Using Playwright, to save and load cookies we need to refer to the `context` object which has methods `cookies()` and `add_cookies()`:

python```python
import json
from pathlib import Path

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as pw:
    browser = pw.chromium.launch(headless=False)

    # To save cookies to a file first extract them from the browser context:
    context = browser.new_context(viewport={"width": 1920, "height": 1080})
    page = context.new_page()
    page.goto("https://httpbin.dev/cookies/set/mycookie/myvalue")
    cookies = context.cookies()
    Path("cookies.json").write_text(json.dumps(cookies))

    # Then, we can restore cookies from file:
    context = browser.new_context(viewport={"width": 1920, "height": 1080})
    context.add_cookies(json.loads(Path("cookies.json").read_text()))
    page = context.new_page()
    page.goto("https://httpbin.dev/cookies")
    print(context.cookies())  # we can test whether they were set correctly
    # will print:
    [
        {
            "sameSite": "Lax",
            "name": "mycookie",
            "value": "myvalue",
            "domain": "httpbin.dev",
            "path": "/",
            "expires": -1,
            "httpOnly": False,
            "secure": False,
        }
    ]
```





 

    



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