How do I programmatically delete cookies in Safari 8.0 on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Question

In Safari 8.0 (10600.1.25.1) on OS X 10.10.1 (Yosemite), I visit some sites like google.com, apple.com, facebook.com and can then see the cookies when I click "Safari" -> "Preferences..." -> "Privacy" -> "Details..."

I then quit Safari completely (actually quit, not just close the window), and delete the following things using the following.

rm -r ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/ rm -r ~/Library/Cookies rm -r ~/Library/Safari

When I restart Safari, the cookies are still there and I'm still logged in to a website that stored a cookie after login.

Which files do I need to delete or what do I have to do to get Safari to actually delete the cookies?

I need to be able to move/rename the files/directories and then move them back at a later time. Cocoa Cookies can delete the cookies (http://ditchnet.org/cocoacookies/) and when I use fswatch there are no interesting files that change.

Answer 1

I think Apple Script is the road to take here, give a look at the linked blog entry here. Below I copied the google script example.

 1  set deCookie to {"nytimes.com", "go.com", "cnn.com"}
 2  
 3  tell application "System Events"
 4    tell process "Safari"
 5      keystroke "," using command down
 6      delay 1
 7      tell window 1
 8        click button "Privacy" of tool bar 1
 9        delay 3
10        repeat with d in deCookie
11          click button "Details…" of group 1 of group 1
12          try
13            keystroke d
14            delay 1
15            select row 1 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of sheet 1
16            click button "Remove" of sheet 1
17          end try
18          click button "Done" of sheet 1
19        end repeat
20      end tell
21      keystroke "w" using command down
22    end tell
23  end tell

Answer 2

A bit late I know, but I made RemoveCookie, a command line utility that deletes Safari cookies. Pretty straightforward, it uses the NSHTTPCookieStorage API, which anyone looking to manage Safari cookies may find useful.