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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, } ] ``` [ Add as a preferred source ](https://google.com/preferences/source?q=scrapfly.io) Join the Newsletter Get monthly web scraping insights Scale Your Web Scraping Anti-bot bypass, browser rendering, and rotating proxies, all in one API. 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