<titledata-rh="true">BrowserContext class | Puppeteer</title><metadata-rh="true"name="viewport"content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><metadata-rh="true"name="twitter:card"content="summary_large_image"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:url"content="https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.browsercontext"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:locale"content="en"><metadata-rh="true"name="docsearch:language"content="en"><metadata-rh="true"name="docsearch:counter"content="2"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:title"content="BrowserContext class | Puppeteer"><metadata-rh="true"name="description"content="BrowserContext represents individual user contexts within a browser."><metadata-rh="true"property="og:description"content="BrowserContext represents individual user contexts within a browser."><linkdata-rh="true"rel="icon"href="/img/favicon.ico"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="canonical"href="https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.browsercontext"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="alternate"href="https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.browsercontext"hreflang="en"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="alternate"href="https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.browsercontext"hreflang="x-default"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="preconnect"href="https://DVKY664LG7-dsn.algolia.net"crossorigin="anonymous"><linkrel="search"type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"title="Puppeteer"href="/opensearch.xml">
<p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">BrowserContext</a> represents individual user contexts within a <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browser">browser</a>.</p>
<p>When a <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browser">browser</a> is launched, it has a single <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a> by default. Others can be created using <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browser.createbrowsercontext">Browser.createBrowserContext()</a>. Each context has isolated storage (cookies/localStorage/etc.)</p>
<p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">BrowserContext</a><ahref="/api/puppeteer.eventemitter">emits</a> various events which are documented in the <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontextevent">BrowserContextEvent</a> enum.</p>
<p>If a <ahref="/api/puppeteer.page">page</a> opens another <ahref="/api/puppeteer.page">page</a>, e.g. using <code>window.open</code>, the popup will belong to the parent <ahref="/api/puppeteer.page.browsercontext">page's browser context</a>.</p>
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<p>The constructor for this class is marked as internal. Third-party code should not call the constructor directly or create subclasses that extend the <code>BrowserContext</code> class.</p>
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<table><thead><tr><th><p>Property</p></th><th><p>Modifiers</p></th><th><p>Type</p></th><th><p>Description</p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>closed</p></td><td><p><code>readonly</code></p></td><td><p>boolean</p></td><td><p>Whether this <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a> is closed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>id</p></td><td><p><code>readonly</code></p></td><td><p>string | undefined</p></td><td><p>Identifier for this <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a>.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table><thead><tr><th><p>Method</p></th><th><p>Modifiers</p></th><th><p>Description</p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext.browser">browser()</a></p></td><td></td><td><p>Gets the <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browser">browser</a> associated with this <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a>.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext.clearpermissionoverrides">clearPermissionOverrides()</a></p></td><td></td><td><p>Clears all permission overrides for this <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a>.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext.close">close()</a></p></td><td></td><td><p>Closes this <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a> and all associated <ahref="/api/puppeteer.page">pages</a>.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext.isincognito">isIncognito()</a></p></td><td></td><td><p>Whether this <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a> is incognito.</p><p>In Chrome, the <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browser.defaultbrowsercontext">default browser context</a> is the only non-incognito browser context.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext.newpage">newPage()</a></p></td><td></td><td><p>Creates a new <ahref="/api/puppeteer.page">page</a> in this <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a>.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext.overridepermissions">overridePermissions(origin, permissions)</a></p></td><td></td><td><p>Grants this <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a> the given <code>permissions</code> within the given <code>origin</code>.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext.pages">pages()</a></p></td><td></td><td><p>Gets a list of all open <ahref="/api/puppeteer.page">pages</a> inside this <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a>.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext.targets">targets()</a></p></td><td></td><td><p>Gets all active <ahref="/api/puppeteer.target">targets</a> inside this <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser context</a>.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext.waitfortarget">waitForTarget(predicate, options)</a></p></td><td></td><td><p>Waits until a <ahref="/api/puppeteer.target">target</a> matching the given <code>predicate</code> appears and returns it.</p><p>This will look all open <ahref="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext">browser contexts</a>.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></article><navclass="pagination-nav docusaurus-mt-lg"aria-label="Docs pages"><aclass="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--prev"href="/api/puppeteer.browser.wsendpoint"><divclass="pagination-nav__sublabel">Previous</div><divclass="pagination-nav__label">Browser.wsEndpoint</div></a><aclass="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--next"href="/api/puppeteer.browsercontext.browser"><divclass="pagination-nav__sublabel">Next</div><divclass="pagination-nav__label">BrowserContext.browser</div></a></nav></div></div><divclass="col col--3"><divclass="tableOfContents_bqdL thin-scrollbar theme-doc-toc-desktop"><ulclass="table-of-contents table-of-contents__left-border"><li><ahref="#remarks"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Remarks</a></li><li><ahref="#example"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Example</a></li><li><ahref="#properties"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Properties</a></li><li><ahref="#methods"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Methods</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></main></div></div></div><footerclass="footer footer--dark"><divclass="container container-fluid"><divclass="row footer__links"><divclass="col footer__col"><divclass="footer__title">Community</div><ulclass="footer__items clean-list"><liclass="footer__item"><ahref="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/puppeteer"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer"class="footer__link-item">Stack Overflow<svgwidth="13.5"height="13.5"aria-
