The Simplest Cookie Clicker Autoclicker

By Jacob Strieb

Published on April 20, 2020

Cookie Clicker is a seemingly simple game that conceals a surprising amount of depth. It is fun to advance by buying upgrades and buildings, but clicking as fast as possible quickly gets tiring.

The game runs entirely in the browser, so it is possible to cheat by manually adding cookies or modifying the underlying code. There are a number of well-documented ways to cheat, but these mostly ruin the fun¹ by advancing the game too quickly. Using an autoclicker is a good way to reduce the need for manual clicking without compromising the spirit of the game. Autoclicking also avoids the “Cheated Cookies Taste Awful” shadow achievement.

Drag the following link to the bookmarks bar, and click it while the game is running:

If you do not have a visible bookmarks bar, you can press Ctrl + Shift + B (Command + Shift + B on macOS) to bring it up. Then drag the bookmark and drop it there. If that doesn’t work for your browser, try using the instructions here or here.

The code is very simple. It creates a timer that calls a function every 1 millisecond. That function finds the cookie element in the document and clicks it. If such an element does not exist, the timer terminates.² The code also changes the time of the last click to beat the auto clicker detection.

A readable version of the code is included below, without the javascript: prefix required for the bookmarklet to work.

var autoclicker = setInterval(function(){
  try {
    Game.lastClick -= 1000;
    document.getElementById('bigCookie').click();
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Stopping auto clicker');
    clearInterval(autoclicker);
  }
}, 1);

There are several ways to stop the autoclicker from running. The easiest is to save the game and refresh the page. Alternatively, enter the following code in the browser console:

clearInterval(autoclicker);

This code is included as a second bookmarklet below, for convenience: