Firefox Advanced History Info

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        This shows you the time you last visited each URL in Firefox (sorted by the time you visited it)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Firefox Advanced history info.
# Copy your places.sqlite to somewhere you can run this.
# (which is usually in:
# "C:\Documents and Settings\${USER}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\${PROFILE}\places.sqlite" )
# This calls the sqlite3 binary so doesn't need DBD::SQLite
#
use strict;

die "$0: ERROR - can't find places.sqlite\n" if ! -f 'places.sqlite';

my $hist;

my $run_query = 'echo "select last_visit_date, url from moz_places;" | sqlite3 places.sqlite';
open (QUERY, "$run_query|") || die "Can't run '$run_query': $!\n";
while (defined (my $line = <QUERY>)) {

    if ( $line =~ /^([0-9]+)\|(.*)$/ ) {

        my ($time, $url) = ($1, $2);
        chomp $url;

        if ( length($time) > 10 ) {
            $time = substr($time, 0, 10);
        }
        $hist->{$url} = {
           time => $time,
           url => $url,
        };

    }

}
close QUERY;

my @mon  = qw( Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec );
my @day  = qw( Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat );

sub by_time ($$) {

    my ($a, $b) = (shift, shift);
    $hist->{$a}->{time} <=> $hist->{$b}->{time};

}

for my $key ( sort by_time keys %{$hist} ) {

    my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)
    = gmtime($hist->{$key}->{time});

    printf "%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d (%s %02d %s %04d) %s\n",
        $year + 1900, $mon + 1, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec,
        $day[$wday], $mday, $mon[$mon], $year + 1900,
        $hist->{$key}->{url};

}

NB: The current versions of Firefox give you more than this under History -> Show All History (Ctrl-Shift-H)
    

Tags:
• firefox
• Perl
• sqlite