wget --load-cookies
will load cookies as a "textual file in the format originally used by Netscape's cookies.txt file". However, Firefox keeps its cookies in an SQLite database.
Is there a way to extract the "Netscape's cookies.txt file" from the Firefox cookies.sqlite
file?
Best Answer
There are cookie exporter extensions that you can use to export a cookie.txt format file that can be used with wget.
Alternatively, you can create your own. Cookies are viewable in
Options / Privacy / remove individual cookies
. You can find the cookie you are after and create a .txt file containing the information:So one might look like this for example: