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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Oct 26, 2022 1 min read [\#headless-browser](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/headless-browser) [\#python](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/python) [\#selenium](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/selenium) 

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When web scraping, we often need to save the connection state like browser cookies and resume it later. Using Selenium, to save and load cookies we can use `driver.get_cookies()` and `driver.add_cookie()` methods:

python```python
import json
from pathlib import Path
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")

# Get cookies to a json file:
Path('cookies.json').write_text(
    json.dumps(driver.get_cookies(), indent=2)
)

# retrieve cookies from a json file
for cookie in json.loads(Path('cookies.json').read_text()):
    driver.add_cookie(cookie)

driver.quit()
```





 

    



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