Read a javascript cookie by name

Question

I have set a cookie using

document.cookie = 
    \'MYBIGCOOKIE=\' + value + 
    \'; expires=\' + now.toGMTString() + 
    \'; path=/\';

No

Answer 1

You can use the following function:

function getCookiesMap(cookiesString) {
  return cookiesString.split(";")
    .map(function(cookieString) {
        return cookieString.trim().split("=");
    })
    .reduce(function(acc, curr) {
        acc[curr[0]] = curr[1];
        return acc;
    }, {});
}

When, called with document.cookie as parameter, it will return an object, with the cookies keys as keys and the cookies values.

var cookies = getCookiesMap(document.cookie);
var cookieValue = cookies["MYBIGCOOKIE"];