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Cookies: Metadata?

I can view the cookies on my machine using security options within Safari.


Is there a way I can view these cookies' download dates or any other metadata associated with them? (In a command line environment, for instance?)


Thanks in advance!


Jennifer E. Shaw

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Feb 15, 2018 5:23 PM

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Posted on Feb 15, 2018 6:16 PM

Safari -> Preferences -> Advanced

[X] Show Develop menu in menu bar


Safari -> Develop -> Show Web Inspector

Click on the "Storage" tab and you will see Cookies

User uploaded file

I shrunk things down so I could show a sample, but if you use a wide window you can see everything in the various columns.

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Mar 8, 2018 7:32 AM in response to bikewoman76

First I don't know why you installed Python. macOS includes a version of Python. Unless you needed a different version, you should not need to install Python.

"Add python installation folder to system PATH."

A folder (directory) created when you installed Python contains executables. You modify the PATH environment variable to tell the Unix side of macOS where to look for executable commands when you type a command at the Terminal command line prompt.


The default PATH tends to look something like

export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin

It is a colon separate list of directories (folders) to search when looking for executable commands


You can use the command

printenv PATH

to see what your PATH currently look like


You would modify PATH by adding a colon and the full path name to the Python directory they want you to add to PATH

export PATH=$PATH:/the/full/path/to/the/python/directory

No spaces except between 'export' and 'PATH'


$PATH provides the current setting for PATH, so you do not need to enter it yourself, and you will get all your existing PATH values.


NOTE: If you mess up PATH, you will start to get errors says command not found. So be very careful when changing PATH.


If you want this PATH change to be there they next time you start a Terminal session, you need to put the

export PATH=$PATH:/the/full/path/to/the/python/directory

Into .bash_profile in your home directory. This must be created with a text editor, NOT a word processor!

nano .bash_profile

is an acceptable choice

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