Best Method to Enter Website Credentials from the macOS Keychain?

Questions & Suggestions
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I know some of you use 1Password, some just put the username and password in the macro itself. I was wondering if there's any way of benefiting/ leveraging the Apple Keychain functionality baked into Safari.

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If I just trigger a click event on the pop-up, the functionality is inconsistent (sometimes the Mac asks me for my password to put the details in, sometimes it doesn't). Is there a way to fix this?

Also, what's the best practice when using passwords to be entered via macros? Thinking in terms of security.

Many thanks for your help!!

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Fix it how?

As far as I know it will only ask for items that are already stored in your keychain.

(I'm still using Mojave, so things may be different down the line.)

Take a look at this Topic:

Set and Get a Keychain Password

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this is great!! exactly what I was looking for, except I'm not able to retrieve the password from keychain into a variable...

I opened the Keychain Access app, I searched and found the password name (this is simply a Safari username password). When I run the macro, I get no error but also no data is retrieved...

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Any thoughts?

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Set and Get a Keychain Password

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I don't know what that means.. I was reading @peternlewis's original Keychain post and his example of a website login, so I don't know how this would be different.

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It's a frustrating limitation, but you can't use Internet passwords created by the system.

Use my macro to create a new password and try to retrieve that new password.

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