Export Google Chrome History to a CSV file

index.js

import fs from 'fs';
import path from 'path';
import { v4 } from 'uuid';
import each from 'p-each-series';
import Database from 'sqlite-async';

/**
 * Find all of the Chrome History files.
 */
function getHistoryFiles(startPath, targetFile) {
    let results = [];
    const files = fs.readdirSync(startPath);
    for (let i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
        const filename = path.join(startPath, files[i]);
        if (fs.lstatSync(filename).isDirectory()) {
            results = results.concat(getHistoryFiles(filename, targetFile));
        } else if (filename.endsWith(targetFile) === true) {
            results.push(filename);
        }
    }
    return results;
}

/**
 * Query the Chrome History DB.
 */
async function queryHistory(dbPath, sql) {
    const db = await Database.open(dbPath);
    const rows = await db.all(sql);
    await db.close();

    return rows.map((row) => {
        return {
            utc_time: row.last_visit_time,
            title: row.title,
            url: row.url,
        };
    });
}

// Get the Chrome History files
const chromePath = path.join(
    process.env.HOME,
    'Library',
    'Application Support',
    'Google',
    'Chrome'
);
const paths = getHistoryFiles(chromePath, '/History');

// Make sure the data folder exists.
if (!fs.existsSync('./data')) {
    fs.mkdirSync('./data');
}

// Iterate over each DB.
await each(paths, async (historyFile) => {
    // Copy the file.
    let dbPath = path.join('./data', v4() + '.sqlite');
    fs.copyFileSync(historyFile, dbPath);

    // Get the history;
    let sql = `SELECT title, datetime(last_visit_time/1000000 + (strftime('%s', '1601-01-01')),'unixepoch') last_visit_time, url from urls WHERE DATETIME (last_visit_time/1000000 + (strftime('%s', '1601-01-01')), 'unixepoch')  >= DATETIME('now', '-3652 days') group by title, last_visit_time order by last_visit_time`;
    const history = await queryHistory(dbPath, sql);

    // Output as CSV.
    for (const record of history) {
        console.log(`${record.utc_time}\t${record.title}\t${record.url}`);
    }
});

package.json

{
  "name": "export-chrome-history",
  "type": "module",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node index > history.csv"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "p-each-series": "^3.0.0",
    "sqlite-async": "^1.1.2",
    "uuid": "^8.3.2"
  }
}

Exports all of your Google Chrome Bookmarks on OSX to a CSV file. To run this tool:

npm install
npm run start

This will create a TAB delimited history.csv file with all of your Chrome history.

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