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Ask HN: Accessing synced Chrome history
1 point by kaylee on March 2, 2016 | hide | past | favorite
I am trying to get access to the full history on chrome that shows up on the chrome://history page (includes URLs and search URLs from comptuer and synced devices) for an extension I am working on. I've tried using the chrome.history API and manually searching through dumps of the sqlite3 database on my computer. When I go to my chrome://history page, all of my searches and URLs are found whether they were done on my computer or on my phone (yes, my account has sync on). When I tried using the API and searching the database, only URLs that are directly typed in to the box on my phone show up. For instance, if I type "www.reddit.com" it will show up in my URL history. However, if I type "reddit" into the search box and then click the "www.reddit.com" link that my google search brings up, neither show up in the database or from the API! It is not storing searches done on my phone in the keyword_search_terms table and it does not store the subsequent links I choose after searching. Does anyone know if I am missing something here?

A work-around would be to download the HTML of chrome://history, but I can not figure out a way to automate this process. Does anyone have any ideas on that front?




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