Feature: Use browser cookies file

codygman commented 5 years ago

Edit: This might be out of scope for this package and instead the place of some sync browser with url-cookies-file type package that runs on the idle timer. Maybe not though and I'm sure others have had this need that use org-web-tools before.

I link to private github repositories and would like to have the title of the page hidden unless logged in rather than link text of "Page not found - Github".

I plan on trying to implement this at some point, but want to leave the idea here in case I don't get to it, someone wants to pick it up immediately, or there are ideas about how to implement it.

After a little research we can do the following for firefox:

copy the cookies.db file to a temporary file (in firefox's case they obtain an exclusive lock on an sqlite database)
select cookies from db and save result in variable
delete temporary cookies db
export to format expected by url-retrieve-synchronously ( couldn't find this format)
append values to url-cookies-file

Then url-retrieve-syncronously and by extension org-web-tools-insert-link-for-url can access anything you've logged into with firefox!

codygman commented 5 years ago

I also just realized this would solve that problem for the other org-web-tools features as well.

alphapapa commented 5 years ago

This would be a little complicated to implement, especially considering that it would probably need to support at least 4 browsers: w3m, eww, Chrom(e|ium), and Firefox. I'm not interested in working on it myself, but I'd be willing to consider well-written patches.

You could probably implement a prototype by wrapping the appropriate functions from this package in your own functions and binding url-cookies-file in them.

stefan2904 commented 1 year ago

An alternative could be to do this externally and create a suitable file, which is then used in url-cookies-file. I know that you probably don't like to do stuff outside of emacs, though. ;-)

What comes to my mind is using stuff like the browser_cookie3 python package, which has support for some browsers (not w3m and eww, though).

stefan2904 commented 1 year ago

the format of url-cookie-file is apparently either elisp or "Netscape/Mozilla format" (the latter appears to be unused).

;; A cookie is stored internally as a vector of 7 slots
;; [ url-cookie NAME VALUE EXPIRES LOCALPART DOMAIN SECURE ]

stefan2904 commented 1 year ago

I did a quick implementation of this idea, and it works for my use cases.

Here is the python script. Below I also mention the small modification to org-web-tools that is currently required: https://gist.github.com/stefan2904/b1a4b21656f2c3b44ab598e652d7cc1a

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Feature: Use browser cookies file #28