Re: Parsing Firefox history.dat file?

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Author: Josef Lowder
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Parsing Firefox history.dat file?
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:30:01 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote
> I want to parse or convert to text the Firefox history.dat file. There
> is apparently a Windows application called Dork that does it. But
> I'm not on Windows. :^)
>
> All I want to do is extract a list of the URLs. I'm wading through
> Google search results but it is probably faster to ask the group.


Well, you might write a little script that would
1) strip the hard crs "\" and spaces out of the dat file,
2) replace the = with a cr
3) then do sort -u and thereby get a list of all the URLs


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