session.defaultSession property
session.defaultSession is a Session object representing the default session of the app. It is available after app.whenReady is called.
session/properties
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session.availableSpellCheckerLanguages property
The availableSpellCheckerLanguages property is a readonly string[] array which consists of all the known available spell checker languages. Providing a language code to the setSpellCheckerLanguages API that isn't in this array will result in an error.
session.spellCheckerEnabled property
The spellCheckerEnabled property is a boolean indicating whether the builtin spell checker is enabled.
session.storagePath property
The storagePath property is readonly and returns string | null indicating the absolute file system path where data for this session is persisted on disk. For in-memory sessions this returns null.
session.cookies property
The cookies property is a readonly Cookies object for this session.
session.extensions property
The extensions property is a readonly Extensions object for this session.
session.serviceWorkers property
The serviceWorkers property is a readonly ServiceWorkers object for this session.
session.webRequest property
The webRequest property is a readonly WebRequest object for this session.
session.protocol property
The protocol property is a readonly Protocol object for this session.
session.protocol property example
const { app, session } = require('electron') const path = require('node:path') app.whenReady().then(() => { const protocol = session.fromPartition('some-partition').protocol if (!protocol.registerFileProtocol('atom', (request, callback) => { const url = request.url.substr(7) callback({ path: path.normalize(path.join(__dirname, url)) }) })) { console.error('Failed to register protocol') } })
session.netLog property
The netLog property is a readonly NetLog object for this session.
session.netLog property example
const { app, session } = require('electron') app.whenReady().then(async () => { const netLog = session.fromPartition('some-partition').netLog netLog.startLogging('/path/to/net-log') // After some network events const path = await netLog.stopLogging() console.log('Net-logs written to', path) })