BrowserHistory Module

browserhistory is a simple Python module that extracts browser history from a user's local computer and writes the data to csv files.

Platforms: Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Suported Browsers: Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari.

Installation

$ python3 -m pip install browserhistory

or

$ git clone https://github.com/kcp18/browserhistory

Overview

Functions:

• get_browserhistory() -> dict
• get_database_paths() -> dict
• get_username() -> str
• write_browserhistory_csv() -> None

Example:

Example
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>>> import browserhistory as bh
>>> dict_obj = bh.get_browserhistory()
>>> dict_obj.keys()
>>> dict_keys(['safari', 'chrome', 'firefox'])
>>> dict_obj['safari'][0]
>>> ('https://mail.google.com', 'Mail', '2018-08-14 08:27:26')
# Write the data to csv files in the current working directory.
# safari_browserhistory.csv, chrome_browserhistory.csv, and firefox_browerhistory.csv.
>>> bh.write_browserhistory_csv()
# Create csv files that contain broswer history

The Description of browserhistory

NAME

    browserhistory

FUNCTIONS

    get_browserhistory() -> dict
        Get the user's browser history by using sqlite3 module to connect to the dabase.
        It returns a dictionary: its key is a name of browser in str and its value is a list of
        tuples, each tuple contains four elements, including url, title, and visited_time. 
    
    get_database_paths() -> dict
        Get paths to the database of browsers and store them in a dictionary.
        It returns a dictionary: its key is the name of browser in str and its value is the path to database in str.
    
    get_username() -> str
        Get username based on their local computers
    
    write_browserhistory_csv() -> None
        It writes csv files that contain the browser history in
        the current working directory. It will writes csv files base on 
        the name of browsers the program detects.

Issue Report

If you have any questions or find bugs in the module,
please report the issues/questions at the follwing address.

• https://github.com/kcp18/browserhistory/issues