Use rookie for seamless login

[thewh1teagle]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Pain

The login process isn't convenient, so I'm suggeting a feature to improve it

Suggested solution

You can use the library I created called rookie for extracting the cookies from the web browsers and login seamlessly.
https://github.com/thewh1teagle/rookie

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[kvba0000]

Or you could use something mobile version of this app has - opening new window with Spotify login page where you can login to your account, and app could grab these cookies when logged in. (I was genuenly curious why it's a thing on mobile but not on PC)

[thewh1teagle]

@kbvivi
Sounds much better approach.
Do you have idea how to do something like that in a good way?
In terms of:

1. finding the right browser
2. open the specific webpage
3. detect successful login and grab the cookie

[kvba0000]

@kbvivi Sounds much better approach. Do you have idea how to do something like that in a good way? In terms of:

1. finding the right browser

2. open the specific webpage

3. detect successful login and grab the cookie

App could probably just could take advantage of webviews to show Spotify login page in separate window that is not specifically some browser and then when app detects navigation - it will grab cookies from that webview. So basically the same as mobile version has but on PC
Sadly I can't do pull request with it myself because I don't have much knowledge about this specific language.

[ShayBox]

I came to suggest the same approach as Rookie as I've used that library before, but I don't think a similar library exists for Dart, it would have to be created.

The easier approach is going to be using web view or some form of controlled browser environment to have the user log in and extract the cookie after.

[KRTirtho]

Flutter desktop has no Webview support. Although it's planned but it's stuck on PlatformViews support.
Which allows to overlay anything over Flutter UI. Flutter ios and Android has support for this but for desktop it's yet to be implemented.

flutter/flutter#41722
flutter/flutter#41724
flutter/flutter#31713

Although there's library like desktop_weview_windows and webview_windows, these don't expose any API to get the cookies.