Session Cookie
A temporary cookie a website uses to remember you during a single visit, such as keeping you logged in, deleted when you close the browser or the session ends.
Full Definition
A session cookie is a type of HTTP cookie that has no explicit expiration date and is deleted when the browser session ends (i.e. when the browser is closed). Websites use session cookies to maintain stateful sessions — storing a session ID that maps to server-side data like authentication status, shopping cart contents, and user preferences. For scrapers, session cookies are critical to maintaining logged-in states across requests. They must be captured after login and sent with every subsequent request. In anti-detect browsers, session cookies are saved as part of the browser profile so sessions persist across browser restarts, just as they would in a real user's browser.
