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 – Navigating links using get method – Selenium Python. 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 – Locating Strategies. 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 delete_cookie driver method in Selenium. delete_cookie method is used to delete a cookie with a specified value.
Syntax –
driver.delete_cookie(name)
Example –
Now one can use delete_cookie method as a driver method as below –
diver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")
driver.delete_cookie("foo")
How to use delete_cookie driver method in Selenium Python ?
To demonstrate, delete_cookie method of WebDriver in Selenium Python. Let’ s visit https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ and operate on driver object. Let’s first add a cookie and then delete it
Program –
Python3
# import webdriverfrom selenium import webdriver# create webdriver objectdriver = webdriver.Firefox()# getneveropen.tech# add_cookie method driverdriver.add_cookie({"name" : "foo", "value" : "bar"})# delete browser cookiedriver.delete_cookie("foo") |
Output –
Screenshot after cookie added –
Screenshot after cookie deleted –
