cookies.get()
The get()
method of the cookies
API retrieves information about a cookie, given the cookie's name and URL.
To use this method, an extension must have the "cookies"
permission and relevant host permissions. See cookie
permissions for more details.
If there is more than one cookie with the same name for a URL, the cookie with the longest path is returned. For cookies with the same path length, the cookie with the earliest creation time is returned. If no matching cookie is found, null
is returned.
Note: Before Firefox 133, when there was more than one cookie with the same name, Firefox returned the cookie with the earliest creation time.
This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise
.
Syntax
let getting = browser.cookies.get(
details // object
)
Parameters
details
-
An
object
containing details that are used to match a cookie to be retrieved. It can include these properties:firstPartyDomain
Optional-
A
string
representing the first-party domain with which the cookie to retrieve is associated. This property must be supplied if the browser has first-party isolation enabled. See First-party isolation. name
-
A
string
representing the name of the cookie to retrieve. partitionKey
Optional-
An
object
representing the storage partition containing the cookie. Include this object withtopLevelSite
to obtain a cookie from partitioned storage. Otherwise, returns the cookie from unpartitioned storage. This object contains:topLevelSite
Optional-
A
string
representing the first-party URL of the top-level site storage partition containing the cookie.
storeId
Optional-
A
string
representing the ID of the cookie store in which to look for the cookie (as returned bycookies.getAllCookieStores()
). By default, the current execution context's cookie store is used. 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 ignored. If host permissions for this URL are not specified in the extension's manifest file, the API call fails.
Return value
Examples
This example tries to get the cookie named "favorite-color" associated with the URL for the active tab:
function logCookie(cookie) {
if (cookie) {
console.log(cookie.value);
}
}
function getCookie(tabs) {
let getting = browser.cookies.get({
url: tabs[0].url,
name: "favorite-color",
});
getting.then(logCookie);
}
let getActive = browser.tabs.query({
active: true,
currentWindow: true,
});
getActive.then(getCookie);
Example extensions
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.cookies
API. This documentation is derived from cookies.json
in the Chromium code.