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Print out a report of what Wikipedia articles you've visited using your Google Chrome history database. You'll need to shutdown Google Chrome first since it locks the database.
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wikihist.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Print out a report of Wikipedia articles you've visited using your Google Chrome history database.
The output is in Markdown, and you'll need to shutdown Chrome before you run this or else the
database will be locked.
"""
import os
import re
import sqlite3
home = os.path.expanduser("~")
dbfile = home + "/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History"
db = sqlite3.connect(dbfile)
q = """
SELECT url, title, visit_count, datetime(last_visit_time/1000000-11644473600,'unixepoch','localtime')
FROM urls
ORDER BY visit_count DESC
"""
for url, title, visit_count, last_visit in db.execute(q):
if re.match('http://(.+)\.wikipedia\.org/wiki', url):
print ("* [%s](%s) - %s - %s" % (title, url, last_visit, visit_count)).encode('utf-8')
db.close()
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hugovk commented Mar 30, 2014

Nice tool. Just a note.

I use HTTPS Everywhere which means my history has both an HTTP and then an HTTPS for clicks from Google searches, but just HTTPS for internal Wikipedia clicks.

So for me it makes sense to just have HTTPS (re.match('https...), not both (http[s]) or just HTTP (http).

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edsu commented Apr 1, 2014

+1 thanks @hugovk ; for the purposes of this script it might make sense to normalize them.

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