Proposal: Automatic Cookie download

[LukeSavefrogs]

Description

I like your project and i find it very useful, although a bit tedious to do all the preparations to make it work... So I have thought of a way to automate the cookie retrieval, instead of relying on the user doing it manually.

It could possibly reduce the number of errors like #7 and #44

Explanation

I have found this interesting answer on StackExchange where it proposes to use Javascript to convert cookie and it says it's compatible with youtube-dl... We could use this to our advantage by using Selenium Webdriver's .execute_script().

I haven't tested yet but it could be something like this (i changed only a bit the answer above)...

with open("cookie.txt", "w") as cookie_file:
        cookie_file.write(d.execute_script("""
                /* *******************************************************************
                        Source: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/425700/429715
                ******************************************************************* */
                (function() {
                  let S = '# Netscape HTTP Cookie File\n';
                  for (raw_cookie of document.cookie.split(';')) {
                    let cookie = raw_cookie.trim();
                    let separator = cookie.indexOf('=');
                    let name = cookie.substring(0, separator);
                    let value = cookie.substring(separator + 1);
                
                    let domain = window.location.hostname;
                    // hopefully this will convert domains like `www.test.com` and `test.com` into `.test.com`
                    domain = domain.replace('www.', '.');
                    if (domain[0] !== '.') {
                        domain = '.' + domain;
                    }
                
                    // netscape cookie file format:
                    // # domain  HTTP PATH SECURE timestamp name  value
                    // .test.com TRUE /    FALSE  123456789 token 1234abcdef
                    S += `${domain}\tTRUE\t/\tTRUE\t0\t${name}\t${value}\n`
                  }
                
                  return S
                })();
        """))

What do you think?

If you're interested and i find the time i could try and make a PR for you (if i make it work 😄)

[cloudwindy]

Oh, no

Another ck.getcookiestxt.com.

[LukeSavefrogs]

Oh, no

Another ck.getcookiestxt.com.

What do you mean?