SafariCacheView

SafariCacheView lets you examine cache information obtained from Safari. This is an intuitive software application that reads and parses the cache.db file, showing all information in a standard table. It lets you export data to file.

Portable tool with a clear-cut GUI

There's no installation involved, which makes the program portable. It's packed in a single executable file that can be double-clicked to launch SafariCacheView. No DLL files are needed, and it doesn't change Windows registry settings. However, it creates a .cfg configuration file at exit.
It adopts a user-friendly interface that asks for the Safari cache.db's location at startup, unless it automatically identifies it in the browser's installed directory.

View and copy cache files, or save information

The cache files are parsed and shown in the main window, where you can examine the name, content type and length, URL, server name and time, expiration time, last modified time, content encoding mode, referrer, etag, and cache control for each item.
It's possible to open any link in the web browser, copy the selected cache files to other directories, use a basic search function to quickly find a specific file, hide any columns from the main window, show grid lines, show time in GMT, as well as copy all or just selected items to the Clipboard, or save them to file with the TXT, CSV, HTML or XML extension. The default cache.db file can be changed anytime.

Evaluation and conclusion

There were no stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that the software utility didn't hang, crash or prompt error messages. It left a small footprint on system resources consumption, running on low CPU and RAM.
To sum it up, SafariCacheView delivers a simple solution to reading cached files from Safari, and it can be handled with ease by anyone.