gcookie

A tool for getting site cookie from your browser.

Note

Chrome above 110 would lock Cookies file when browser is running. please run gcookie with administrator privileges or close browser.

Edge has a running process in background, please terminate it or elevate gcookie's privileges

About

When you write a script for scraping some data, you may need the cookie of the site. Instead of copying cookie string from Browser, you can use the std output of this tool.

const { execSync } = require('child_process');
let site = 'bing.com';
const cookie = execSync(`gcookie ${site}`).toString();

from subprocess import check_output
site = 'https://cn.bing.com'
# output of cookies in `cn.bing.com`. not `bing.com`
cookie = check_output(['gcookie', '-c', 'Edge', site]).decode("utf-8")
# example in Scrapy
def get_cookies_dict(cookies):
    if not cookies:
        return {}
    return {c.split('=')[0]: c.split('=')[1] for c in cookies.split('; ')}

class DemoSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'demo'

    def start_requests(self):
        cookies_dict = get_cookies_dict("your_cookies")
        yield scrapy.Request(
            url,
            headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
            cookies=cookies_dict,
            callback=self.parse,
        )

This package bertrandom/chrome-cookies-secure depends on win-dpapi. win-dpapi based on an older version of node-gyp is diffcult to install on Windows.

moonD4rk/HackBrowserData

This tools can export all of the data. In my case, I just want to a single site's cookie.

Supported Browser

Windows

Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Chromium

Linux

Firefox

Install

download the release for your system and run the binary

Usage

Usage: gcookie [OPTIONS] <site>

gcookie -h print help infomation.

Examples

# App would use Chrome's cookie
> gcookie "google.com"
1P_JAR=2022-07-20-12; APISID=xxxyyyyy

# App would use Edge's cookie
> gcookie -c Edge "bing.com"

# App would use Firefox's cookie
> gcookie -f /path/to/profiles/xx.p "bing.com"

# App would use Chrome's cookie in this path
> gcookie -p /path/to/User Data/Default "bing.com"

Lib Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
gcookie = "*"

get cookie by Chrome

let site = "http://cn.bing.com";
let cookie = gcookie::gcookie_chrome(site, None, None);

let site = "bing.com";
let browser = Some("Edge");
let cookie = gcookie::gcookie_chrome(site, browser, None);
assert!(cookie.is_ok());

Development

git clone https://github.com/zhifengle/gcookie

# Build
cd gcookie
cargo build

# Run unit tests and integration tests
cargo test

# Install
cargo install --path .