amanej/cookiemonster

A cookie parser for node

Cookies Monster

Small cookie parsing library

This is a small library to parse cookies from requests in Node.

Install

$ npm install cookiesmonster

Usage

const cookieMonster = require('cookiemonster');

• Parse request for cookies

const cookies = cookieMonster.get(req);

Pass a default node request, or from express etc. This returns the parsed cookies as an array of objects or empty array.

[
    {
        "name": "_ga",
        "value": "GA1.1.206842275.1547456732"
    }
]

• Get cookie by name

const cookies = cookieMonster.getByName(req,'randomSite');

This return an object with the name of the site, value of the cookie and if the cookie is not found it returns null.

{
    "name": "randomSite",
    "value": "9cs09ds0cisd"
}

Future features

• Get cookie by name

Suggestions and pull requests welcome!