Exporting Firefox history

Post by **saturn** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:11 am

Options > Privacy > History > Clear

Export

Post by **Eraser** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:11 am

On the first page of a Google search:
http://philwilson.org/blog/2005/01/how- ... -text.html

As it stands, there's an open bug asking for history.dat to be easier to parse (which will probably be fixed by the move to SQLite rather than anything else) which actually has a very useful piece of Javascript attached which will convert the Mork history.dat into an RDF/XML history file, which I personally use as a bookmarklet from my toolbar: export history.dat. Just drag it to your toolbar, load a local file in Firefox to ensure you're in a trusted context and click it like you would any other bookmarklet. It'll give you a security warning, which you can click "yes" to (if you trust my link - if not, you can get it from the bug linked to above, or look at the code yourself). It'll take a few seconds to kick in (or longer, depending on the size of your history) but will eventually ask you to specify a location to save the file to. Give it a name, and you're free to parse it with whatever you like (although preferably an actual RDF parser

Go to the site for the link to the javascript. Can't post it in here.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:34 am

I came across that site before, I'll give it another shot. Any better options?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:01 am

So shitty...

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:12 am

Massive Quasars wrote:I came across that site before, I'll give it another shot. Any better options?

Sorry Massive Quasars. I too looked 'cause it was a challenge and from what I find it don't look easy :icon23:

I will keep an eye on this thread for the answer while looking.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu May 12, 2005 11:23 pm

Thanks Whiskey, this is frustrating.

Post by **shiv4** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:41 am

go here

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/s ... 0&pageid=7

install surf book 1.0

after restart you should find it under View > Sidebar > Surfbook

clickin floppy icon exports .xml file

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri May 13, 2005 1:03 am

Thanks. I hope this works.

Post by **shiv4** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:51 am

um, what I forgot, the good thing with Surf Book is that the xml file can be re-imported or viewed with Firefox but it seems to have no format and looks like a pile of funk in Notepad or sth.

To save a readable list of the session history Enhanced History Manager might be a better option.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/m ... php?id=420

R-click on the expanded day sessions let's you Mark All links and then c+p it to another prog.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri May 13, 2005 9:03 pm

Again, thank you sir. Much better.

Post by **saturn** » Fri May 13, 2005 10:58 pm

Why did you need to export it?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:57 pm

I like to keep a record of the sites I visit.