cookies.get()

The get() method of the cookies API retrieves information about a single cookie, given its name and URL.

If more than one cookie with the same name exists for a given URL, the one with the longest path will be returned. For cookies with the same path length, the cookie with the earliest creation time will be returned. If no matching cookie could be found, null is returned.

This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise.

Syntax

var getting = browser.cookies.get(
  details                // object
)

Parameters

details

An object containing details that can be used to match a cookie to be retrieved. It can include the following properties:

url

A string representing the URL with which the cookie to retrieve is associated. This argument may be a full URL, in which case any data following the URL path (e.g. the query string) is simply ignored. If host permissions for this URL are not specified in the extension's manifest file, the API call will fail.

name

A string representing the name of the cookie to retrieve.

storeIdOptional

A string representing the ID of the cookie store in which to look for the cookie (as returned by cookies.getAllCookieStores()). By default, the current execution context's cookie store will be used.

Return value

A Promise that will be fulfilled with a Cookie object containing details about the cookie, or null if the cookie was not found.

Browser compatibility

The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.

Examples

This example tries to get the cookie named "favourite-colour", associated with the URL for the currently active tab:

function logCookie(cookie) {
  if (cookie) {
    console.log(cookie.value);
  }
}
function getCookie(tabs) {
  var getting = browser.cookies.get({
    url: tabs[0].url,
    name: "favourite-colour"
  });
  getting.then(logCookie);
}
var getActive = browser.tabs.query({
  active: true,
  currentWindow: true
});
getActive.then(getCookie);

Example extensions

• cookie-bg-picker

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