giannifer7 / barbero

barbero

Gather history files from browsers.

• GitHub: https://github.com/giannifer7/barbero
• Free software: MIT

Features

Generate csv files from the history files of the browsers:

* Chromium
* Falkon
* Firefox
* Opera

On Linux only, for now, but porting to other platforms and browsers should be straightforward.

Does not depend on any external package, no installation needed, just clone and hack:

git clone https://github.com/giannifer7/barbero.git
cd barbero
./history.py > history.csv

There are 3 executable scripts that write a csv to the standard output:

* history.py
* pages.py
* sites.py

history.py

Print some fields common to all browsers' histories

Usage: ./history.py > history.csv

The csv fields are:

* idx: int  # progressive index
* browser: str  # browser name
* bid: int # id in the specific browser history
* date: datetime # last visit datetime
* url: str
* title: str
* xcount: int # visit count

pages.py

Visited pages in decreasing order of visit counts.

Usage: ./pages.py > pages.csv

The csv fields are:

* the visit count
* the url

sites.py

Visited sites in decreasing order of visit counts.

Usage: ./sites.py > sites.csv

The csv fields are:

* the visit count
* the url

TODO

* tests
* documentation
* more platforms
* more browsers

WARNING: the history databases are copied into the work_dir directory, keep it private or clean it after use.

The project is named after the famous italian historian Alessandro Barbero.