How to work with cookies in insomnia.sendRequest (Pre-Request and Post-Request scripts)?

[andreygrigoriev]

Hi. First of all thank you for implementing Pre-Request and Post-Request scripts. This is a feature we waited for a long time. Several questions regarding Pre-Request and Post-Request scripts:

1. Are cookies stored somewhere between several insomnia.sendRequest executions?
2. Is it possible to add a custom cookie to the insomnia.sendRequest execution?
3. Is it possible to show the complete log of the request-response (headers, cookies, everything) for insomnia.sendRequest execution?
4. Is there any documentation on insomnia.sendRequest?

[subnetmarco]

@ihexxa

[ihexxa]

Hi @andreygrigoriev , thanks for trying scripts.

1. Nope, currently cookies are persisted only after script execution completion, so you might maintain cookie values manually.
2. Yes, although it is a bit complicated, will try to simplify it:

const { Cookie } = require('insomnia-collection');
const cookies = [
	new Cookie({key: 'myCookie1', value: 'abc'}),
	new Cookie({key: 'myCookie2', value: 'def'}),
];

const rawReq = {
    url: 'httpbin.org/anything',
    method: 'POST',
    header: {
	'Cookie': Cookie.unparse(cookies),
        'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
    },
    body: {
        mode: 'raw',
        raw: 'rawContent',
    },
};

await insomnia.sendRequest(
	rawReq,
	(error, response) => {
		if (error) {
			console.log(error);
		} else {
			console.log(response);
		}
	}
);

3. IIUC, you could try to define one request manually doc, and console.log it. And you can also see how to print the response in the example.

4. Yes, you can find some detailed examples in the above doc.

[andreygrigoriev]

Thanks!