1History

All your history in one file.

1History is a command line tool to backup your histories of different browsers into one file, and more! 📊

Features

• Rich dashboards to visualize your history
• Export as CSV file
• Entirely offline, No need to worry about privacy leaks
• Support Chrome/Firefox/Safari on macOS/Linux/Windows
• Well-designed schemas to avoid history duplication when backup multiple times
• No NPM, 1History is a single binary built mainly in Rust🦀

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Usage

onehistory 0.1.0

USAGE:
    onehistory [OPTIONS] <SUBCOMMAND>

OPTIONS:
    -d, --db-file  <DB_FILE>           Database path [env: OH_DB_FILE=] [default: ~/onehistory.db]
    -h, --help                         Print help information
    -v, --verbose
    -V, --version                      Print version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    backup    Backup browser history to 1History
    export
    help      Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    serve     Start HTTP server to visualize history
    show      Show default history files on your computer

Backup

USAGE:
    onehistory backup [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -d, --disable-detect
            Disable auto detect history files

    -D, --dry-run


    -f, --history-files <HISTORY_FILES>
            SQLite file path of different browsers(History.db/places.sqlite...)

    -h, --help
            Print help information

backup is the main subcommand, it will import browser history into 1History.

1History will automatically detect history of different browsers by default, show subcommand will show what it can find.

Users can also use -f option to set other history files to backup, the history file has the following naming convention:

# -f can be used multiple times
# -d is required when doing backup with browsers open
onehistory backup -d -f ~/some-dir/History.db -f ~/another-dir/places.sqlite

Serve

After backup browser history into 1History, the next step is to visualize those data.

serve subcommand will start a HTTP server at http://127.0.0.1:9960, open this in your browser to explore.

Installation

Homebrew

brew install 1History/onehistory/onehistory

Binary

The release page includes precompiled binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Cargo

cargo install onehistory

Changelog

See CHANGELOG

FAQ

Error code 5: The database file is locked

This error happens if your browser is opened during backup, as SQLite allow only one open connection.

Close the browser is one solution, or you can copy history file to other directory other than default location.

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2022 Jiacai Liu <[email protected]>

1History is distributed under GPL-3.0 license.