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Cookie Crawler

A simple tool that shows which cookies, sessions, and local storage data are set on a website – fast, transparent, and without registration.

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Copy the full URL of the website from your browser’s address bar.

Enter a clickable CSS selector – for example, for the “Accept all” button of the cookie banner. Left empty, the banner is not clicked.

Copy a selector from your browser
  1. Right-click on the desired element
  2. Click on ‘Inspect’
  3. Right-click on the highlighted element in the developer tools
  4. Select ‘Copy’
  5. Click on ‘Copy selector’

The page is loaded by our server, not by your browser. Without a selector the consent banner is not clicked.

Common questions

Questions about the cookie crawler

What exactly is checked?

The address you enter is loaded by our server in a real browser, without clicking the consent banner. Cookies, local and session storage and every request including third-party hosts are recorded.

Why would a site set cookies before consent at all?

Usually because tags load as the page builds rather than waiting for the consent tool to release them, since they are hard-coded in the source or fire in a tag manager without a consent condition. The consent tool itself also shows up here, along with technically necessary cookies such as load balancer or CSRF cookies, which are generally uncontroversial.

What does the before/after comparison show?

If you supply a CSS selector for the accept button, the page is read a second time: once before the click and once after. Both states are reported, plus the list of cookies that consent actually added.

How do I find the button's CSS selector?

Right-click the accept button, choose Inspect, then right-click the highlighted element in the developer tools and pick Copy selector. Buttons inside iframes and shadow DOM are searched too. If nothing matches, a typo in the selector is almost always the cause.

Is the result legal advice?

No. The tool measures what technically happens. It does not judge whether a given cookie may be set without consent. That depends on its purpose and is a legal question.

What happens to the address I enter?

The address and the result stay in memory for five minutes so that checking the same page again does not trigger another page load. To limit request volume your IP address is held for at most ten minutes. Nothing is stored permanently.