Clearing Chrome's cache, cookies, etc via command line? (OSX)

Question

Is it possible to clear chrome's browser cache, & cookies, etc via the command line? I'm on Mac OSX 10.9

I've written a script that switches from development and production environments & it would be really nice to add this to it.

Solution 1

In OS X, your Chrome cache is located at:

/Users/[username]/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/

To delete the cache you could type:

rm -rf /Users/[username]/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache/

There is also a media cache in there that you can nuke:

rm -rf /Users/[username]/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Media\ Cache/

Other Chrome data is located at:

/Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/

Solution 2

You can clear specific cookies from Chrome, by using sqlite and its command line interface.

Here's a post on Superuser on how to do this: https://superuser.com/a/920604

Solution 3

Try this

Clear Chrome Cache

rm -R /Users/*/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache

Comments

[SunSparc]

He said he is on a Mac.

[Matt Welander]

Anyone know the path to Chrome cache on Ubuntu?

[SunSparc]

@MattiasSvensson, that is worth asking a new question.

[Viuu -a]

How to delete a specific site cache insead of clear all the cache from chrome?