node-fetch-cookies

A node-fetch wrapper with support for cookies. It supports reading/writing from/to a JSON cookie jar and keeps cookies in memory until you call CookieJar.save() to reduce disk I/O.

Usage Examples

with file...

import {fetch, CookieJar} from "node-fetch-cookies";

(async () => {
    // creates a CookieJar instance
    const cookieJar = new CookieJar("rw", "jar.json");

    // usual fetch usage, except with one or multiple cookie jars as first parameter
    const response = await fetch(cookieJar, "https://example.com");

    // save the received cookies to disk
    cookieJar.save();
})();

...or without

import {fetch, CookieJar} from "node-fetch-cookies";

(async () => {
    const cookieJar = new CookieJar("rw");

    // log in to some api
    let response = await fetch(cookieJar, "https://example.com/api/login", {
        method: "POST",
        body: "credentials"
    });

    // do some requests you require login for
    response = await fetch(cookieJar, "https://example.com/api/admin/drop-all-databases");

    // and optionally log out again
    response = await fetch(cookieJar, "https://example.com/api/logout");
})();

Documentation

async fetch(cookieJar, url, options)

• cookieJar A CookieJar instance, an array of CookieJar instances or null, if you don't want to send or store cookies.
• url and options as in https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch#fetchurl-options

Returns a Promise resolving to a Response instance on success.

Class: CookieJar

A class that stores cookies.

Properties

• flags The read/write flags as specified below.
• file The path of the cookie jar on the disk.
• cookies A Map mapping hostnames to maps, which map cookie names to the respective Cookie instance.

new CookieJar(flags[, file, cookies])

• flags A string specifying whether cookies should be read and/or written from/to the jar when passing it as parameter to fetch.
  • r: only read from this jar
  • w: only write to this jar
  • rw or wr: read/write from/to this jar
• file An optional string containing a relative or absolute path to the file on the disk to use.
• cookies An optional initializer for the cookie jar - either an array of Cookie instances or a single Cookie instance.

addCookie(cookie[, fromURL])

Adds a cookie to the jar.

• cookie A Cookie instance to add to the cookie jar. Alternatively this can also be a string, for example a serialized cookie received from a website. In this case fromURL must be specified.
• fromURL The url a cookie has been received from.

Returns true if the cookie has been added successfully. Returns false otherwise. Will log a warning to console if a cookie fails to be parsed.

addFromFile(file)

Reads cookies from file on the disk and adds the contained cookies.

domains()

Returns an iterator over all domains currently stored cookies for.

*cookiesDomain(domain)

Returns an iterator over all cookies currently stored for domain.

*cookiesValid(withSession)

Returns an iterator over all valid (non-expired) cookies.

• withSession: A boolean. Iterator will include session cookies if set to true.

*cookiesAll()

Returns an iterator over all cookies currently stored.

*cookiesValidForRequest(url)

Returns an iterator over all cookies valid for a request to url.

deleteExpired(sessionEnded)

Removes all expired cookies from the jar.

• sessionEnded: A boolean. Also removes session cookies if set to true.

save()

Saves the cookie jar to disk. Only non-expired non-session cookies are saved.

Class: Cookie

An abstract representation of a cookie.

Properties

• name The identifier of the cookie.
• value The value of the cookie.
• expiry A Date object of the cookies expiry date or null, if the cookie expires with the session.
• domain The domain the cookie is valid for.
• path The path the cookie is valid for.
• secure A boolean value representing the cookie's secure attribute. If set the cookie will only be used for https requests.
• subdomains A boolean value specifying whether the cookie should be used for requests to subdomains of domain or not.

new Cookie(str, url)

Creates a cookie instance from the string representation of a cookie as send by a webserver.

• str The string representation of a cookie.
• url The url the cookie has been received from.

Will throw a CookieParseError if str couldn't be parsed.

static fromObject(obj)

Creates a cookie instance from an already existing object with the same properties.

serialize()

Serializes the cookie, transforming it to name=value so it can be used in requests.

hasExpired(sessionEnded)

Returns whether the cookie has expired or not.

• sessionEnded: A boolean that specifies whether the current session has ended, meaning if set to true, the function will return true for session cookies.

isValidForRequest(url)

Returns whether the cookie is valid for a request to url.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE.