This feature allows you to upload a cookie file to replicate a browser session. It's perfect for accessing pages that require a login or have specific states set. This technique is essential for bypassing login pages, enabling you to capture authenticated or user-specific content with GrabzIt's API, Screenshot Tool, Web Monitor, and Web Scraper.
After importing a cookie file, you may need to wait a short while for the caches on our capture servers to clear before the new cookies will take effect.
Please note that the browser extensions listed are third-party applications. They are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, GrabzIt. While they are widely used, we are not responsible for their functionality or any issues that may arise from their use. Always exercise caution when installing software from any source.
When you export cookies for a website, it is crucial that you include all cookies for the main domain and all of its subdomains.
Modern websites are complex and often set essential cookies on various subdomains (e.g., login.example.com, api.example.com) for the main website to function correctly. GrabzIt's browser process needs access to this complete set of cookies to load and render the page properly.
Failing to provide cookies from all relevant subdomains can result in failed captures, incomplete content, or being stuck on a login page.
You can export cookies using your browser's developer tools or, more easily, with specialized browser extensions. The exported file must be in the standard Netscape cookie file format, saved as a .txt file.
Here are some popular extensions that can export cookies in the correct format: