The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is stateless, but cookies allow it to keep context consistent over the course of a session. In other words, by having our browser automatically exchange small amounts of data, we get to have websites recognise us and remember our preferences, the contents of our shopping baskets or the fact that we had just logged in to our account.

This article shows how we can use cookies and the Web Storage APIs to set state in our Puppeteer and Playwright scripts, opening up new scenarios and saving on execution time.

Giovanni Rago

Wed Oct 14 2020

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