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# curlfire
Run curl with the current firefox cookies. This is useful for interacting with logged in websites.
Run curl with the current [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/) cookies.
This is useful for interacting with logged in websites from the shell, without having to manually deal with the login process.
The executable `cookiefire` included in this package can be used to extract the cookies from Firefox.
# Attribution
This code is Adapted from [this Stack Exchange answer](https://superuser.com/questions/666167/how-do-i-use-firefox-cookies-with-wget)
This code is adapted from [this Stack Exchange answer](https://superuser.com/a/1239036/653515) by [hackerb9](https://superuser.com/users/400780/hackerb9).
# Usage
```
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echo 'PATH=$PATH:~/curlfire' >> ~/.bashrc
```
# Alternative and prior work
# Alternatives and prior work
* Adapted from [this stack overflow answer](https://superuser.com/questions/666167/how-do-i-use-firefox-cookies-with-wget)
* Adapted from [this Stack Exchange answer](https://superuser.com/questions/666167/how-do-i-use-firefox-cookies-with-wget)
* Firebug and friends allow you to copy requests as curl. This can be suitable for debugging.
* Cookies can be exported manually from within firefox
* Cookies can be exported manually from within Firefox
All of these approaches can be problematic when automating tasks.
All of these approaches can be time consuming when automating tasks.
[Prior to Firefox 57](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/frequently-asked-questions-firefox-addon), the [remote control extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remote-control/) could be used to interact with the page currently viewed in Firefox from the shell (including outputting the current [document object model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model) as HTML).