Cookie Management
Storing, sending, and rotating browser cookies so a scraper can maintain logins and sessions across requests, keeping automated traffic looking consistent and human.
Full Definition
Cookie management in the context of web scraping is the practice of correctly handling the HTTP cookies a target site sets during a session. Sites use cookies to track sessions, authentication tokens, consent choices, and anti-bot flags. A scraper that ignores cookies will fail to stay logged in, may miss personalised content, and may look suspicious to bot-detection engines. Proper cookie management means persisting cookies between requests, sending them back with each subsequent request, respecting cookie expiry, and — in multi-account work — keeping each account's cookies strictly isolated in its own browser profile.
