# Google Cookie Retrieval

This is a simple Selenium script used to quickly run through the [Mautrix Google Chat Authentication Process](https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/python/googlechat/authentication.html).

It was written primarily with [goose](https://github.com/block/goose) (honk!).

## The goal: Automate this
1. Open a private chat with the bridge bot. Usually @googlechatbot:your.server.
    - If the bot doesn't accept the invite, see the troubleshooting page

1. Open https://chat.google.com in a private browser window and log in normally, then extract cookies:
    1. Press F12 to open developer tools.
    1. select the "Application" (Chrome) or "Storage" (Firefox) tab.
    1. In the sidebar, expand "Cookies" and select https://chat.google.com.
    1. In the cookie list, find the COMPASS, SSID, SID, OSID and HSID rows.
        - When using Firefox, you may have multiple COMPASS cookies with different paths. Pick the one where path is /.
    1. Form a JSON object with the extracted cookies. It should look something like this (field names are case-insensitive):
    ```json
    {
      "compass": "dynamite-ui=...",
      "ssid": "...",
      "sid": "...",
      "osid": "...",
      "hsid": "..."
    }
    ```
    1. Close the browser window to prevent the cookies being invalidated (Google uses refresh tokens, so you need to close the window within a few minutes).
1. Send login-cookie {the json object} to the bot.

Recent chats should now get portals automatically. Other chats will get portals as you receive messages.