seanmiller802 / BrowserTime

open source browser history page with analytics

BrowserTime

It's like screen time for your browser history

Description

The default history page in chrome is 💩

BrowserTime is an open source chrome extension that aims to make it better.

What you get

• 🔎   improved searching, filtering, and management of your history
• 📊   a sleak dashboard giving you a weekly breakdown of how you spent your time on the web
• 🎨   7 awesome UI themes

Download on Chrome Web Store

BrowserTime is available for download on the Chrome Web Store

(note: the version available on the store may be behind the latest version availble on Github)

Permissions

This extension requests the following permissions:

• history (Read and change your browsing history)
• top sites (Read a list of your most frequently visited websites. Will be deprecated in a future release.)
• storage (Access to the chrome.storage API. Will be deprecated in a future release.)
• unlimitedStorage (Unlimited storage for client-side data. Will be deprecated in a future release.)
• chrome://favicon/ (Access website favicons.)

Privacy

This project is commited to preserving the privacy of its user's data. We do the following to ensure this:

• no accounts
• no tracking
• no data transfer to a server
• no cookies

If you see anything that could be a vulnerability or compromise privacy or security please submit an issue

Contributing

Contributions to this project are encouraged! Feel free to make pull requests for bug fixes and new features. Before making a pull request for a new feature, please create an issue so we can discuss

Setup for development

Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/seanmiller802/browsertime

Install the dependencies: npm run install

Run Development Server (currently buggy. suggested to just build for production)

Add .env file in root directory with these values: NODE_ENV=development PORT=9090

Start the development server: npm run start:dev

this should open a new tab at localhost:9090/history.html

Build for Production

Run the build script: npm run build

Go to chrome://extensions/ if using Chrome browser or brave://extensions if using Brave browser

Toggle Developer mode

Click the 'Load Unpacked' button

Select the build folder at BrowserTime/src/build

Visit chrome://history if using Chrome browser or brave://history if using Brave Browser

Useful Links

Chrome Extension documentation - https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/

Material-ui component library - https://material-ui.com/

Charting Libraries

• @devexpress/dx-react-chart-material-ui
• @devexpress/dx-react-chart