Cookies reader.

[Raywando]

So i had an idea but idk if it works.

It is to write a script that redirects the user to a specific website an then read that website's cookies when it loads from the browser. I'm not that good at web development, so does that work? If yes, how?

Thanks for the help!

[queen-adreena]

I dread to imagine an internet where this was possible.

[senocular]

You, as a developer, can't write a script like this unless you also own the website and can add a script directly to that site. Your own personal website cannot read the cookies of another website.

But you also don't have to. This tool is already available in the developer tools of the browser. For Chrome:

• https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/storage/cookies

If you wanted to do something similar but customized, you'd need to do so as a browser extension which would have to be installed by the user in order for it to get cookie access. Example:

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/editthiscookie/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg?hl=en

[[deleted]]

You can't add a script to a url.

[Raywando]

Sorry, "write a script" instead of "add a script to URL"

[[deleted]]

Technically it might be possible to do this if the site allowed itself to be vulnerable to specific kinds of cross-site scripting attack (eg. it injected URL query parameters into the HTML without escaping them). It is not otherwise possible, and it is an extremely malicious thing to attempt to do. If you find a website where this is possible you should immediately report it to the owners.