salesforce/tough-cookie

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Tough Cookie is a Node.js library implementing RFC6265 (and RFC6265bis features like SameSite and cookie prefixes) for parsing, storing, and retrieving HTTP cookies. It provides Cookie and CookieJar classes with pluggable storage, used widely by HTTP clients and scrapers.

Use cases

• parse and generate Set-Cookie headers in node
• manage a cookie jar across http requests
• handle SameSite cookie rules for scraping
• persist cookies between requests in an http client
• implement RFC6265 cookie handling in typescript

When to choose

• you need standards-compliant cookie parsing and storage in Node.js
• you're building an HTTP client, scraper, or test tool that must track cookies
• you need SameSite or cookie-prefix support

When to avoid

• you only need browser cookie handling (browsers do this natively)
• you need cookie management outside Node.js
• you want a full HTTP client rather than just cookie logic

Facets

library · maturity active

http-client serialization security web-development developer-tools security cookies rfc6265 cookiejar http-headers set-cookie samesite nodejs javascript

Member repositories

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