Get cookie by name

Question

I have a getter to get the value from a cookie.

Now I have 2 cookies by the name shares= and by the name obligations= .

I want to

Answer 1

I wrote something that might be easy to use, If anyone has some things to add, feel free to do so.

function getcookie(name = '') {
    let cookies = document.cookie;
    let cookiestore = {};
    
    cookies = cookies.split(";");
    
    if (cookies[0] == "" && cookies[0][0] == undefined) {
        return undefined;
    }
    
    cookies.forEach(function(cookie) {
        cookie = cookie.split(/=(.+)/);
        if (cookie[0].substr(0, 1) == ' ') {
            cookie[0] = cookie[0].substr(1);
        }
        cookiestore[cookie[0]] = cookie[1];
    });
    
    return (name !== '' ? cookiestore[name] : cookiestore);
}

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Usage

getcookie() - returns an object with all cookies on the web page.

getcookie('myCookie') - returns the value of the cookie myCookie from the cookie object, otherwise returns undefined if the cookie is empty or not set.

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Example

// Have some cookies :-)
document.cookie = "myCookies=delicious";
document.cookie = "myComputer=good";
document.cookie = "myBrowser=RAM hungry";

// Read them
console.log( "My cookies are " + getcookie('myCookie') );
// Outputs: My cookies are delicious

console.log( "My computer is " + getcookie('myComputer') );
// Outputs: My computer is good

console.log( "My browser is " + getcookie('myBrowser') );
// Outputs: My browser is RAM hungry

console.log( getcookie() );
// Outputs: {myCookie: "delicious", myComputer: "good", myBrowser: "RAM hungry"}

// (does cookie exist?)
if (getcookie('hidden_cookie')) {
    console.log('Hidden cookie was found!');
} else {
    console.log('Still no cookie :-(');
}

// (do any cookies exist?)
if (getcookie()) {
    console.log("You've got cookies to eat!");
} else {
    console.log('No cookies for today :-(');
}

Answer 2

Here is a pretty short version

 function getCookie(n) {
    let a = `; ${document.cookie}`.match(`;\\s*${n}=([^;]+)`);
    return a ? a[1] : '';
}

Note that I made use of ES6's template strings to compose the regex expression.

Answer 3

kirlich gave a good solution. However, it fails when there are two cookie values with similar names, here is a simple fix for this situation:

function getCookie(name) {
  var value = "; " + document.cookie;
  var parts = value.split("; " + name + "=");
  if (parts.length >= 2) return parts.pop().split(";").shift();
}

Answer 4

It seems to me you could split the cookie key-value pairs into an array and base your search on that:

var obligations = getCookieData("obligations");

Which runs the following:

function getCookieData( name ) {
    var pairs = document.cookie.split("; "),
        count = pairs.length, parts; 
    while ( count-- ) {
        parts = pairs[count].split("=");
        if ( parts[0] === name )
            return parts[1];
    }
    return false;
}

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/qFmPc/

Or possibly even the following:

function getCookieData( name ) {
    var patrn = new RegExp( "^" + name + "=(.*?);" ),
        patr2 = new RegExp( " " + name + "=(.*?);" );
    if ( match = (document.cookie.match(patrn) || document.cookie.match(patr2)) )
        return match[1];
    return false;
}

Answer 5

My solution is this:

function getCookieValue(cookieName) {
    var ca = document.cookie.split('; ');
    return _.find(ca, function (cookie) {
        return cookie.indexOf(cookieName) === 0;
    });
}

This function uses the Underscorejs _.find-function. Returns undefined if cookie name doesn't exist

Answer 6

Just use the following function (a pure javascript code)

const getCookie = (name) => {
 const cookies = Object.assign({}, ...document.cookie.split('; ').map(cookie => {
    const name = cookie.split('=')[0];
    const value = cookie.split('=')[1];

    return {[name]: value};
  }));

  return cookies[name];
};