I'm trying to enter a page and then add cookies on it, but it returns an error and I don't know why. I did it exactly like is written on the selenium docs, and here is the code i used: And it returns selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: invalid argument: missing 'name'. I already thought that it could be the code trying to

I can’t add cookies on python selenium webdriver

I’m trying to enter a page and then add cookies on it, but it returns an error and I don’t know why. I did it exactly like is written on the selenium docs, and here is the code i used:

local_path = rf'{os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))}\chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=local_path)
driver.get('https://example.com/')
driver.add_cookie({'session': 'session token'})
driver.close()

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local_path = rf'{os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))}\chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=local_path)
driver.get('https://example.com/')
driver.add_cookie({'session': 'session token'})
driver.close()
​

And it returns selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: invalid argument: missing 'name'.
I already thought that it could be the code trying to add cookies before the page is totally loaded, but it isn’t. I put a time.sleep(30) between get and add_cookie and it returned the same exception.

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Actually it was just a wrong usage of add_cookie(). The right way to send cookies is like this:

driver.addcookie({

    'name': 'session',
    'value': 'token'

})

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driver.addcookie({
​
    'name': 'session',
    'value': 'token'
​
})
​

My error was using directly the cookie name + the value, and not with the dict template.

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