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add_cookie driver method - Selenium Python

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. To open a webpage using Selenium Python, checkout –

. Just being able to go to places isn’t terribly useful. What we’d really like to do is to interact with the pages, or, more specifically, the HTML elements within a page. There are multiple strategies to find an element using Selenium, checkout –

. Selenium WebDriver offers various useful methods to control the session, or in other words, browser. For example, adding a cookie, pressing back button, navigating among tabs, etc. This article revolves around

driver method in Selenium.

method is used to add a cookie to your current session. This cookie can be used by website itself or by you.

add_cookie(cookie_dict)

Now one can use add_cookie method as a driver method as below -

driver.add_cookie({‘name’ : ‘foo’, ‘value’ : ‘bar’})

To demonstrate,

method of WebDriver in Selenium Python. Let' s visit https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ and operate on driver object.

# import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver

# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

# get geeksforgeeks.org
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")

# add_cookie method driver
driver.add_cookie({"name" : "foo", "value" : "bar"})

Cookie with name foo and value bar is added as verified below -

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