Having a check store cookies which could be referenced in other checks?

[wrobelda]

I have a few checks that do a quick HTTP request and retrieve a JSON output, on a frequent basis. They need a session cookie to work. I do not want to use the full-blown Selenium step-by-step login, because it would be too heavy to run frequently and inevitably trigger throttling errors.

What would be cool is if it was possible to designate a single check that would run every few hours, doing the Selenium step-by-step login and storing the cookies, which could then be referenced from another checks.

[dgtlmoon]

another idea is to access your chrome cookie values from changedetection too

[dgtlmoon]

chromium$ file Default/Cookies
Default/Cookies: SQLite 3.x database, last written using SQLite version 3039004

Looks like it could be possible.... so add a checkbox

[ ] Use all cookies available for this URL from linked Chrome cookie DB

that would be super cool, except the DB is encrypted.. hmmm https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22532870/encrypted-cookies-in-chrome

[wrobelda]

I was under impression that all artifacts get wiped after each check, though?

[wrobelda]

Couldn't this be sorted, at least partially, by relying on #864?

The way I see it, one could designate some checks to use the same browser session and maintain it for a certain, indicated period of time? The most natural way to do it would be enable it per tag, as in one would tag several checks and on the tag page, enable a "maintain session for x minutes/hours". I would also make sense to be able to enable a sequential run of these checks and for a user to be able to order them at will, such that the first check could perform the log in (if logging in was required, i.e. the endpoint redirected to a login page), and the rest would follow.