# Does Adobe XD use cookies?

**URL:** <https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/does-adobe-xd-use-cookies/1636>\
**Category:** UXP Plugin API\
**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/does-adobe-xd-use-cookies/1636 "2020-02-21T19:19:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![wata.hia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/779978/32.png) [@wata.hia](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/wata.hia)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/does-adobe-xd-use-cookies/1636/1 "2020-02-21T19:19:15Z")

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If not, is there a technology similar to cookies being used?

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**Author:** ![kerrishotts](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/kerrishotts/32/8_2.png) [@kerrishotts](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/kerrishotts)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/does-adobe-xd-use-cookies/1636/2 "2020-02-21T20:01:10Z")

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Network requests do use cookies, but the plugin has no direct access to them. Usually one would set headers or the body, assuming the endpoint supports it. If you need to persist information, plugins do have access to local storage, _but this is not secure storage_, so be careful what you store. 🙂

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**Author:** ![pklaschka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/pklaschka/32/3162_2.png) [@pklaschka](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/pklaschka)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/does-adobe-xd-use-cookies/1636/3 "2020-02-22T06:59:35Z")

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If you’re looking for storage for your plugins (and not cookies in network requests), you might want to take a look at [`xd-storage-helper`](https://github.com/pklaschka/xd-storage-helper), which is an MIT-licensed library I’ve written for exactly this use-case.

It allows storing key-value-pair data in a way that’s similar to `localStorage` (`get()`, `set()` etc.), and saves the data in a JSON file in your plugin data directory.

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**Author:** ![Velara](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/velara/32/1278_2.png) [@Velara](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/Velara)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/does-adobe-xd-use-cookies/1636/4 "2020-04-23T02:42:08Z")

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If the user signs into an account in her favorite browser to a site like Instagram or similar, would the plugin be able to recognize that and post to her account? Or does she need to login again through a HTML form in UXP panel or dialog?