[Feature] Cookie Removal Api

It would be nice to clear the cookie using its name or domain etc. It has a lot of uses like logging out and logging in to certain websites.

Currently, we have only one way to clear the whole cookie. Yes, there are workaround like getting all cookies filtering them, and writing the cookies back using add cookies. So I am making this proposal to add cookie removal API which clears based on name or URL etc.

await context.clearCookies(cookie => cookie.name.startsWith("HELLO")) would remove all cookies which has name that starts with HELLO?

[poziminski]

Here’s a helper script for clearing cookie by name in Playwright.

const clearCookieByName = async (context, cookieClearedName) => {
      const filteredCookies = await context
          .cookies()
          .filter((cookie) => cookie.name !== cookieClearedName)

      context.clearCookies()
      context.addCookies(filteredCookies)
}

const context = await browser.newContext()

await clearCookieByName(context, 'COOKIE_TO_REMOVE')

[shirshak55]

@manochernazari

There is an workaround. Firstly, store the cookies in variable, clear the cookies and insert the cookies by filtering out the one which you don’t need.