Absolutely, go ahead! I just didn’t need it thus it was easy not to implement rather than implement. I think it will be as easy as provide a path and just don’t remove anything from it when quitting.

I think the default context that Chrome creates has a lot of limitations like inability to create pages inside it and so on. If you come up with something useful please open a PR but due to inactivity I'm going to close this issue.

Hi,
Is there an other way to persist state between sessions like we can do with Selenium ?
I came to Ferrum to be able to catch network requests, but I need also to persist the session.
Exemple, i'm logged in on a website, I want to be still logged when re-launching the script
Thanks 🙏🏻

@yann120 http is stateless protocol. The state is determined by headers sent from/to web server. If you want to login on the website, close browser and then open it and be logged in, you need to store your cookies somewhere, and next time before telling a browser to visit url, load those cookies.

You open the page and login:

browser = Ferrum::Browser.new(headless: false)
page = browser.create_page
page.go "https://auth.udacity.com/sign-in?next=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.udacity.com%2F"
page.network.wait_for_idle

page.at_xpath("//*[@id='email']").focus
page.keyboard.type(email)
page.at_xpath("//*[@id='revealable-password']").focus
page.keyboard.type(password)
button = page.at_xpath("//button[@type='button'][./span[.='Sign in']]")
button.focus.click

page.network.wait_for_idle

File.open(path, "w") do |file|
  file.write(page.cookies.map(&:to_h).to_yaml)
end

Then next time you load all the cookies before opening the page:

browser = Ferrum::Browser.new(headless: false)
page = browser.create_page

cookies = YAML.load_file(path)
cookies.each { |c| page.cookies.set(c) }
page.go "https://learn.udacity.com"

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@yann120 http is stateless protocol. The state is determined by headers sent from/to web server. If you want to login on the website, close browser and then open it and be logged in, you need to store your cookies somewhere, and next time before telling a browser to visit url, load those cookies.

You open the page and login:

browser = Ferrum::Browser.new(headless: false)
page = browser.create_page
page.go "https://auth.udacity.com/sign-in?next=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.udacity.com%2F"
page.network.wait_for_idle

page.at_xpath("//*[@id='email']").focus
page.keyboard.type(email)
page.at_xpath("//*[@id='revealable-password']").focus
page.keyboard.type(password)
button = page.at_xpath("//button[@type='button'][./span[.='Sign in']]")
button.focus.click

page.network.wait_for_idle

File.open(path, "w") do |file|
  file.write(page.cookies.map(&:to_h).to_yaml)
end

Then next time you load all the cookies before opening the page:

browser = Ferrum::Browser.new(headless: false)
page = browser.create_page

cookies = YAML.load_file(path)
cookies.each { |c| page.cookies.set(c) }
page.go "https://learn.udacity.com"

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Thanks, I ended up using your solution and it work :)