Get cookies from selenium session

Question

I want to get session variable and cookies after login. i have used selenium webdriver and successfully login. but how to get session and cookies after login in selenium.here is my code:

try {
            WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
            driver.get("https://pacer.login.uscourts.gov/csologin/login.jsf");
            System.out.println("the title is"+driver.getTitle());
            WebElement id= driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[3]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[15]/div[2]/form/table[1]/tbody/tr/td[2]/input"));
            WebElement pass=driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[3]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[15]/div[2]/form/table[2]/tbody/tr/td[2]/input"));
            WebElement button=driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[3]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[15]/div[2]/form/div[2]/button[1]"));

            id.sendKeys("USERNAME");
            pass.sendKeys("PASSWORD");
            button.click();
        } catch (Exception e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        }

please provide your suggestion asap.

Thanks

@leo: yes i have tried same driver.manage().getCookies(). but it returned empty []. — Atul Thakre, Dec 16 '14 at 09:47
You chances of getting an answer here will increase dramatically if you show what you already tried. Are you sure there are visible cookies? When I log in to that site, I can't see any. — leo, Dec 16 '14 at 09:55
possible duplicate of [Selenium WebDriver manager().getCookies() returns 0 always](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15952262/selenium-webdriver-manager-getcookies-returns-0-always) — leo, Dec 16 '14 at 09:56
@leo: i have tried Set allCookies = driver.manage().; for ( Cookie loadedCookie : allCookies) { System.out.println(String.format("%s -> %s", loadedCookie.getName(), loadedCookie.getValue())); } but it will returned empty[]; — Atul Thakre, Dec 16 '14 at 09:59
@LEO: If you look at http live header after login.it will display session variable and cookies.here is sample: Set-Cookie: PacerSession=; Domain=; Path=/; Secure Set-Cookie: NextGenCSO=; Domain=.uscourts.gov; Path=/; Secure Set-Cookie: PacerClientCode=""; Domain=.uscourts.gov; Path=/; Secure Set-Cookie: PacerPref="receipt=Y"; Version=1; Domain=.uscourts.gov; Path=/; Secure Set-Cookie: ClientValidation=""; Domain=.uscourts.gov; Path=/; Secure Set-Cookie: ClientCodeDescription=""; Domain=.uscourts.gov; Path=/; Secure — Atul Thakre, Dec 16 '14 at 10:02
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/66980/discussion-between-atu-tha-and-leo). — Atul Thakre, Dec 16 '14 at 10:04
can u provide a valid username n password. With the code u gave i tried and got output as (although i wasn't able to login): `the title isPACER Login JSESSIONID -> 0BBD8CBB51C1156274D8FBBC5963xcde` — Vivek Singh, Dec 16 '14 at 10:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '14 at 17:50

I ran your code with the following code additions and was able to get the following value in my console.

try {
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("https://pacer.login.uscourts.gov/csologin/login.jsf");
        System.out.println("the title is" + driver.getTitle());
        WebElement id = driver
                .findElement(By
                        .xpath("/html/body/div[3]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[15]/div[2]/form/table[1]/tbody/tr/td[2]/input"));
        WebElement pass = driver
                .findElement(By
                        .xpath("/html/body/div[3]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[15]/div[2]/form/table[2]/tbody/tr/td[2]/input"));
        WebElement button = driver
                .findElement(By
                        .xpath("/html/body/div[3]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[15]/div[2]/form/div[2]/button[1]"));

        id.sendKeys("USERNAME");
        pass.sendKeys("PASSWORD");
        button.click();

        Thread.sleep(10000);
        Set<Cookie> cookies = driver.manage().getCookies();
        System.out.println("Size: " + cookies.size());

        Iterator<Cookie> itr = cookies.iterator();
        while (itr.hasNext()) {
            Cookie cookie = itr.next();
            System.out.println(cookie.getName() + "\n" + cookie.getPath()
                    + "\n" + cookie.getDomain() + "\n" + cookie.getValue()
                    + "\n" + cookie.getExpiry());
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

console

the title isPACER Login

Size: 1

JSESSIONID

/csologin/

pacer.login.uscourts.gov

E44C8*********************400602

null

Instead of Thread.sleep(10000) you can also try using explicit wait. I believe that the web page took some time to set the cookies since it was busy waiting for the page to load.

Hope this helps you.

Get cookies from selenium session

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