Google Cookie Retrieval

This is a simple Selenium script used to quickly run through the Mautrix Google Chat Authentication Process.

It was written primarily with 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

2. Open https://chat.google.com in a private browser window and log in normally, then extract cookies:

   1. Press F12 to open developer tools.
   2. select the "Application" (Chrome) or "Storage" (Firefox) tab.
   3. In the sidebar, expand "Cookies" and select https://chat.google.com.
   4. 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 /.
   5. Form a JSON object with the extracted cookies. It should look something like this (field names are case-insensitive):

   {
     "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).

3. 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.