So we have to get our hands dirty and hack it out of the browser.īut I found that there's another way to do it, takes a few steps but it's rather easy. AFAIK, Apple doesn't currently offer extensions to export data from its browser. Safari is a little trickier than other browsers.

Once you locate the file containing the browser's history, copy it to make a backup just in case we screw up. You can work around this by either using the terminal (my preferred method) or by using the Cmd+ Shft+ G in Finder. It tries to protect us from ourselves by hiding some system and application-specific files. The OSX Finder cheats a little bit and doesn't show us all the files that actually exist on our drive. Turns out that most of them, including Safari, have their history saved in some kind of sqlite database file somewhere in your home directory.

The harder way, which seems to be what Safari wants is a bit more hacky but it will also work for other browsers. Unless you are using Safari on OSX, most browsers will have some kind of free plugin that you can use to export the browser's history.

Check chrome history by date