/// <summary>
/// Get browser cookie string for a specific domain from the first browser it is found in, from a list of browsers.
/// These include Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, plus many other chromium-based browsers as of 2021. Apple Safari not supported.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="domain">
/// Domain/Host name to retrieve. ex: www.google.com or .google.com or google.com (leading '.' assumes all subdomains)
/// </param>
/// <param name="preferredBrowser">
/// Optional preferred browser to search first. Upon return, contains the name of the browser this cookie was retrived from. If the returned cookie is empty, this value is undefined.<br />
/// Possible values are:<br />
/// • Firefox or Mozilla • Chrome or Google • Edge or Microsoft • Opera • Chromium • Brave • Epic • Amigo • Vivaldi • Dragon • Torch • Comodo • Slimjet • Orbitum • Kometa • 360Browser • Maxthon3 • K-Melon • Sputnik • Nichrome • CocCoc • Uran or uCozMedia • Chromodo • Yandex or YandexBrowser
/// </param>
/// <returns>Browser cookie string with domain key-value pairs delimited by semi-colons or empty if not found.</returns>
public static string Get(string domain, ref string preferredBrowser)
{
string cookie = string.Empty;
bool ffFirst = (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(preferredBrowser) &&
(preferredBrowser.IndexOf("Mozilla", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != -1 ||
preferredBrowser.IndexOf("Firefox", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != -1));
if (ffFirst)
{
cookie = Mozilla.GetCookie(domain);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cookie))
{
preferredBrowser = "FireFox";
}
}
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(cookie))
{
cookie = Chromium.GetCookie(domain, ref preferredBrowser);
}
if (!ffFirst && string.IsNullOrEmpty(cookie))
{
cookie = Mozilla.GetCookie(domain);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cookie))
{
preferredBrowser = "FireFox";
}
}
preferredBrowser = preferredBrowser ?? string.Empty;
return(cookie);
}