The web site I'd like to scrape uses cookies, can screen-scraper handle this?

Absolutely. screen-scraper handles cookies (and BASIC authentication tokens) transparently behind the scenes. When setting up screen-scraper to scrape information from your site you rarely need to take any thought for cookies. In certain cases, sites will set cookies in JavaScript. In such cases, you can set them within a screen-scraper script via the session.setCookie method.