Examine cookie names/values for a website

yum_cookies.js

function getCookies(cooksName) {
	var cooks = document.cookie.split(';')
	var cooksInTheKitchen = {}
	cooks.forEach(function(i) {
		var name = unescape(i.match(/^\s*([^=]+)/m)[1])
		var value = unescape(i.match(/=(.*$)/m)[1])
		if (cooksInTheKitchen[name] !== undefined) {
			console.log("Trying to retrieve cookie named(" + name + "). There appears to be another property with this name though.");
		}
		cooksInTheKitchen[name] = value
	});
	if (cooksName !== undefined && cooksName !== '') {
		var filtered = {}
		for(var key in cooksInTheKitchen) { 
			if(key === cooksName){
				filtered[key] = cooksInTheKitchen[key];
			}
		}
		return filtered;
	} else {
		return cooksInTheKitchen;
	}
};

// after entering function into console, call this anytime you need to see updates to the cookies
console.dir(getCookies());

// if you want to get the values of a particular cookie, send the optional parameter as a string
getGaCookie = getCookies('_ga');

// in most modern browsers you can also translate base64 encoded objects to a string or, as shown below, a javascript object
getEncodedCookie = getCookies('the_cookie');
unencodedCookie = JSON.parse(atob(getEncodedCookie['the_cookie']));