Authentication

0. Open a private chat with the bridge bot. Usually @googlechatbot:your.server.
   • If the bot doesn't accept the invite, see the troubleshooting page
1. Open https://chat.google.com in a private browser window and log in normally, then extract cookies:
   1. Press F12 to open developer tools.
   2. select the "Application" (Chrome) or "Storage" (Firefox) tab.
   3. In the sidebar, expand "Cookies" and select https://chat.google.com.
   4. In the cookie list, find the COMPASS, SSID, SID, OSID and HSID rows.
      • When using Firefox, you may have multiple COMPASS cookies with different paths. Pick the one where path is /.
   5. Form a JSON object with the extracted cookies. It should look something like this (field names are case-insensitive):

      {
        "compass": "dynamite-ui=...",
        "ssid": "...",
        "sid": "...",
        "osid": "...",
        "hsid": "..."
      }
      

   6. Close the browser window to prevent the cookies being invalidated (Google uses refresh tokens, so you need to close the window within a few minutes).
2. Send login-cookie {the json object} to the bot.
3. Recent chats should now get portals automatically. Other chats will get portals as you receive messages.