Function: parseCookies()

parseCookies(input): Record<string, string>

Parses Cookie header values into a name-to-value map (URI-decoded).

Accepts:

• A raw Cookie string ("a=1; b=2").
• An array of such strings (e.g. multiple Cookie headers).
• Any HeaderLike: a WHATWG Headers instance, a header record, or a request-like object with a headers field.

First occurrence of each cookie name wins; later duplicates are ignored.

Parameters

input

HeaderValueLike | HeaderLike | null

Returns

Record<string, string>

Example

parseCookies("session=abc; theme=dark");
// { session: "abc", theme: "dark" }

parseCookies(req);              // Express / Node
parseCookies(c.req.raw);        // Hono
parseCookies(request);          // fetch Request
parseCookies(request.headers);  // WHATWG Headers directly