browser-history

browser-history is a simple, zero-dependencies, developer-friendly python package to retrieve (almost) any browser's history on (almost) any platform.

Features

• Supports most popular browsers. See this for a full list.
• Supports all major platforms - Windows, Mac and Linux.
• A command-line tool: simply run browser-history --help from your terminal.
• History: browsing history with exact timestamp and URL.
• Bookmarks: browser bookmarks with timestamp, URL, title and folder.
• Lightweight: the entire package is less than 20kB in size and has no dependencies other than python 3.8+.
• Developer friendly: you can add support for new browsers or add a new feature very easily.
• Default browser: can automatically determine the default browser on Windows and Linux (browser-history -b default).
• Fully open source: this project is developed and maintained by the browser-history organization (previously maintained by PESOS) and will always be open source (with the Apache 2.0 License).

Quick Start

Installation

To install the latest release:

pip install browser-history

To install from the master branch (warning: development version. Things could break)

pip install git+https://github.com/browser-history/browser-history.git

Usage

History

To get history from all installed browsers:

from browser_history import get_history

outputs = get_history()

# his is a list of (datetime.datetime, url) tuples
his = outputs.histories

If you want history from a specific browser:

from browser_history.browsers import Firefox

f = Firefox()
outputs = f.fetch_history()

# his is a list of (datetime.datetime, url) tuples
his = outputs.histories

• Firefox in the above snippet can be replaced with any of the supported browsers.

Bookmarks

WARNING: Experimental feature. Although this has been confirmed to work on multiple (Firefox and Chromium based) browsers on all platforms, it is not covered by tests and has not been used as much as the history feature.

To get bookmarks from all installed browsers:

from browser_history import get_bookmarks

outputs = get_bookmarks()

# bms is a list of (datetime.datetime, url, title, folder) tuples
bms = outputs.bookmarks

To get bookmarks from a specific browser:

from browser_history.browsers import Firefox

f = Firefox()
outputs = f.fetch_bookmarks()

# bms is a list of (datetime.datetime, url, title, folder) tuples
bms = outputs.bookmarks

Check out the documentation for more details.

Supported Browsers

Read the documentation

Credits

Logo designed with :heart: by XA.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")