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sources/academy/glossary/tools/edit_this_cookie.md

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**EditThisCookie** is a simple Chrome extension to manage your browser's cookies. It can be added through the [Chrome Web Store](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions). After adding it to Chrome, you'll see a button with a delicious cookie icon next to any other Chrome extensions you might have installed. Clicking on it will open a pop-up window with a list of all saved cookies associated with the currently opened page domain.
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**EditThisCookie** is a Chrome extension to manage your browser's cookies. It can be added through the [Chrome Web Store](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions). After adding it to Chrome, you'll see a button with a delicious cookie icon next to any other Chrome extensions you might have installed. Clicking on it will open a pop-up window with a list of all saved cookies associated with the currently opened page domain.
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![EditThisCookie popup](./images/edit-this-cookie-popup.png)
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description: Learn about Insomnia, a simple yet super valuable tool for testing requests and proxies when building scalable web scrapers.
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# What is Insomnia {#what-is-insomnia}
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**Learn about Insomnia, a simple yet super valuable tool for testing requests and proxies when building scalable web scrapers.**
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**Learn about Insomnia, a valuable tool for testing requests and proxies when building scalable web scrapers.**
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After you install the ModHeader extension, you should see it pinned in Chrome's task bar. When you click it, you'll see an interface like this pop up:
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[Postman](https://www.postman.com/) is a powerful collaboration platform for API development and testing. For scraping use-cases, it's mainly used to test requests and proxies (such as checking the response body of a raw request, without loading any additional resources such as JavaScript or CSS). This tool can do much more than that, but we will not be discussing all of its capabilities here. Postman allows us to test requests with cookies, headers, and payloads so that we can be entirely sure what the response looks like for a request URL we plan to eventually use in a scraper.
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The desktop app can be downloaded from its [official download page](https://www.postman.com/downloads/), or the web app can be used with a simple signup - no download required. If this is your first time working with a tool like Postman, we recommend checking out their [Getting Started guide](https://learning.postman.com/docs/getting-started/introduction/).
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The desktop app can be downloaded from its [official download page](https://www.postman.com/downloads/), or the web app can be used with a signup - no download required. If this is your first time working with a tool like Postman, we recommend checking out their [Getting Started guide](https://learning.postman.com/docs/getting-started/introduction/).
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description: Discover a handy tool for disabling JavaScript on a certain page to determine how it should be scraped. Great for detecting SPAs.
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**Discover a super simple tool for disabling JavaScript on a certain page to determine how it should be scraped. Great for detecting SPAs.**
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**Quick JavaScript Switcher** is a very simple Chrome extension that allows you to switch on/off the JavaScript for the current page with one click. It can be added to your browser via the [Chrome Web Store](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions). After adding it to Chrome, you'll see its respective button next to any other Chrome extensions you might have installed.
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**Quick JavaScript Switcher** is a Chrome extension that allows you to switch on/off the JavaScript for the current page with one click. It can be added to your browser via the [Chrome Web Store](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions). After adding it to Chrome, you'll see its respective button next to any other Chrome extensions you might have installed.
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If JavaScript is enabled - clicking the button will switch it off and reload the page. The next click will re-enable JavaScript and refresh the page. This extension is useful for checking whether a certain website will work without JavaScript (and thus could be parsed without using a browser with a plain HTTP request) or not.
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**User-Agent Switcher** is a simple Chrome extension that allows you to quickly change your **User-Agent** and see how a certain website would behave with different user agents. After adding it to Chrome, you'll see a **Chrome UA Spoofer** button in the extension icons area. Clicking on it will open up a list of various **User-Agent** groups.
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**User-Agent Switcher** is a Chrome extension that allows you to quickly change your **User-Agent** and see how a certain website would behave with different user agents. After adding it to Chrome, you'll see a **Chrome UA Spoofer** button in the extension icons area. Clicking on it will open up a list of various **User-Agent** groups.
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