Usable Keychain Scripting For Lion

I’m tracking down a mysterious behavior of Safari in Lion, where it seems to fail to enter my password for logins that I’ve saved to the keychain. In the process of looking into this, I noticed that “Keychain Scripting” has mysteriously disappeared from Lion. As far as I can tell you must copy Apple’s scripting addition from Snow Leopard in order to keep using it.

On the other hand, I wrote an alternative years ago, called Usable Keychain Scripting. Its main advantage over Apple’s implementation is that it is (or at least, was) enormously faster. Today I updated the app to be 64-bit compatible and to fix a pernicious bug in which the password value returned for a keychain item would sometimes have garbage appended to the end of it.

Download Usable Keychain Scripting 1.0b4

This is not a supported product, and your success with it may vary. But it has been very handy in the past for me, and hopefully it will come in handy for you if you need to script the keychain.