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justcntt
justcntt

Reputation: 237

Pass the cookie file into the curl request nodejs

I use cookies.txt extension of chrome to get cookies.txt after login to google. The cookie file format is netscape cookie. Now I want pass this cookie file to http request by nodejs.

Command line I used:

curl -L -b cookie.txt https://myaccount.google.com/

But I couldn't find any documents that tell me about how to pass cookie file to curl function of nodejs. How to convert the above command line to nodejs?

Update: cookie.txt format like this:

# HTTP Cookie File for mozilla.org by Genuinous @genuinous.
# To download cookies for this tab click here, or download all cookies.
# Usage Examples:
#   1) wget -x --load-cookies cookies.txt "https://developer.mozilla.org/vi/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions"
#   2) curl --cookie cookies.txt "https://developer.mozilla.org/vi/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions"
#   3) aria2c --load-cookies cookies.txt "https://developer.mozilla.org/vi/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions"
#
.mozilla.org    TRUE    /   FALSE   1643553591  _ga GA1.2.176633766.1564724252
.developer.mozilla.org  TRUE    /   TRUE    1583073592  dwf_sg_task_completion  False
.mozilla.org    TRUE    /   FALSE   1580567991  _gid    GA1.2.1169610322.1580463999
developer.mozilla.org   FALSE   /   FALSE   1580483392  lux_uid 158048125271715522
.mozilla.org    TRUE    /   FALSE   1580481652  _gat    1

Nodejs code:

var http = require('http');

var options = {
    hostname: 'www.myaccount.google.com',
    path: '/',
    headers: {
        'User-Agent': 'whatever',
        'Referer': 'https://google.com/',
        'Cookie': ????
    }
};

http.get(options, callback);

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4028

Answers (2)

O. Jones
O. Jones

Reputation: 108806

There's the npm cookiefile package. It can read the netscape-format cookiefile and generate the appropriate header.

It will send the cookies with all their expiration, path, and scope data from the cookiefile.

Something like this (not debugged):

var http = require('http');
const cookiefile = require('cookiefile')

const cookiemap = new cookiefile.CookieMap('path/to/cookie.txt')
const cookies = cookiemap.toRequestHeader().replace ('Cookie: ','')

var options = {
    hostname: 'www.myaccount.google.com',
    path: '/',
    headers: {
        'User-Agent': 'whatever',
        'Referer': 'https://google.com/',
        'Cookies': cookies
    }
};

http.get(options, callback);

Upvotes: 3

jfriend00
jfriend00

Reputation: 707856

As it appears you already know, you just need to set the Cookie header based on the name and values that correspond to the target hostname. Here's an example from your cookie file for the developer.mozilla.org domain:

var http = require('http');

var options = {
    hostname: 'developer.mozilla.org',
    path: '/',
    headers: {
        'User-Agent': 'whatever',
        'Referer': 'https://google.com/',
        'Cookie': 'dwf_sg_task_completion=False; lux_uid=158048125271715522;'
    }
};

http.get(options, callback);

Upvotes: 1

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