Firefox Local Storage External Access

Question

I writing a script which uses information which a website stores in local storage. Chrome stores the local storage db file at the following path, I can parse this database file fine using python.

'C:\Users\Matt\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Storage\'

Firefox on the other hand stores the file at the following path, but I can not open this file to parse the information.

'C:\Users\Matt\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\vrviae08.default\webappsstore.sqlite'

Can you access local storage in this way? Is there a much better way to use information stored in local storage than this?

Answer 1

While looking for a solution to my similar problem I stumbled upon this question. For me the issue was certainly permissions. I didn't want to alter the permissions in the Firefox directories, so from my script directory I made symbolic links to the .sqlite files I wanted to access. This did the trick for me. Hopefully this helps someone.