#!/usr/bin/env bash # Interactively select (in skim) an url from Firefox/Chrome/Chromium history to # open in your browser (depends on $BROWSER). Should work on Linux and MacOS. # # requires: sqlite3 sep='{{::}}' [[ $OSTYPE == linux* ]] && open='xdg-open' || open='open' _do_skim() { for url in $(awk -F "$sep" '{printf "%s, %s\n", $1, $2}' | skim --prompt='history > ' --multi | sed 's#.*\(https*://\)#\1#'); do $open "$url" & done } case ${BROWSER:-firefox} in firefox) for dir in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default ~/.config/firefox/.mozilla/firefox/*.default ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default; do if [[ -d "$dir" ]]; then sqlite3 -separator $sep "$dir/places.sqlite" \ "SELECT DISTINCT title, url FROM moz_places \ WHERE title IS NOT NULL \ ORDER BY last_visit_date DESC" | _do_skim break fi done ;; *) for dir in ~/.config/google-chrome/Default ~/.config/chromium/Default ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default; do if [[ -f "$dir/History" ]]; then cp -f "$dir/History" "/tmp/_h" sqlite3 -separator $sep "/tmp/_h" \ "SELECT substr(title, 1, $((COLUMNS / 3))), url \ FROM urls ORDER BY last_visit_time DESC" | _do_skim break fi done ;; esac