Wget using Cookies Firefox3
Firefox 3 does not use cookies.txt but rather cookies.sqlite.
Solution: Uses a python script to extract the data from cookies.sqlite.
http://blog.schlunzen.org/2008/06/19/firefox-3-und-cookiestxt/
#!/usr/bin/python
import sqlite3 as db
import sys
cookiedb = '/home/USENAME/.mozilla/firefox/PROFIL/cookies.sqlite'
targetfile = '/home/USERNAME/cookies.txt'
what = sys.argv[1]
connection = db.connect(cookiedb)
cursor = connection.cursor()
contents = “host, path, isSecure, expiry, name, value”
cursor.execute(”SELECT ” +contents+ ” FROM moz_cookies WHERE host LIKE ‘%”
+what+ “%’”)
file = open(targetfile, ‘w’)
index = 0
for row in cursor.fetchall():
file.write(”%s\tTRUE\t%s\t%s\t%d\t%s\t%s\n” % (row[0], row[1],
str(bool(row[2])).upper(), row[3], str(row[4]), str(row[5])))
index += 1
print “Gesucht nach: %s” % what
print “Exportiert: %d” % index
file.close()
connection.close()
