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Exporting Firefox history
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 7:17 am
by Massive Quasars
How?
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 7:58 am
by Grudge
Why?
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:11 am
by saturn
Options > Privacy > History > Clear
Export
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:11 am
by Eraser
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.
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:34 am
by Massive Quasars
I came across that site before, I'll give it another shot. Any better options?
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 9:01 am
by Massive Quasars
So shitty...
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 10:12 am
by Whiskey 7
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.
Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 11:23 pm
by Massive Quasars
Thanks Whiskey, this is frustrating.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:41 am
by shiv4
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
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:03 am
by Massive Quasars
Thanks. I hope this works.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 11:51 am
by shiv4
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.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 9:03 pm
by Massive Quasars
Again, thank you sir. Much better.
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 10:58 pm
by saturn
Why did you need to export it?
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 11:57 pm
by Massive Quasars
I like to keep a record of the sites I visit.