dump-cookie

Open an empty Chrome browser, dump cookies on termination.

Motivation

Puppeteer is a savior that save us from boring tasks by enabling us to build web automation tools, however, some sites block Puppeteer's magic wand through libraries like reCAPCHA. To bypass those circumstances, reusing a healthy cookie could be a help sometimes. This program dumps cookies for you.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/reedom/dump-cookie
cd dump-cookie
yarn install

Usage instruction

1. Open a terminal window and invoke the program.
   It will open a new Chrome window with 2 tabs.

   The first tab contains a normal page.
   The second tab is under the control of Puppeteer.

   cd path/to/dump-cookie
   yarn run start

2. Move to the first tab, and then visit any web site and do login, etc.

3. Open the same webpage in the second tab, with a hope that it'd load the same cookies with the first tab.

4. Back to the terminal window and press CTRL-C.
   You'll have a cookies' dump string.

5. Save and use it in your program.
   For example:

   const cookies = JSON.parse(DUMPED_COOKIES);
   await page.setCookie(...cookies);

License

MIT