Chrome History to Google Sheets

This repository contains all the code you need to start programmatically exporting your browsing history to a Google Sheet.

The reason I created this was to easily serve an API of this data for my site where I'm running a social experiment, publicly sharing my browsing for a month.

To create an API from Google Sheets I'm using Sheety.

This script runs every hour.

Setup

1. Clone this repository

2. Create a .env file like the .env.example and fill in the following data:

   1. Write the Document ID of the Google Sheet you want to use in SHEET.

   2. Head to Google Developers Console and create a new project (or select the one you have.)

   3. Under “API & auth”, in the API enable “Drive API”.

   

   4. Go to “Credentials” and choose “New Credentials > Service Account Key”.

   

   It will download a .json file.

   Put that .json file inside of the folder with this code.

   Replace CREDENTIALS in the .env file with the name of the file you downloaded:

CREDENTIALS=Drive-weird00number.json

5) Open the .json and copy the `client_email` field: `"client_email": "123456789-yoursisdifferent@developer.gserviceaccount.com"`

6) Go to your Google Sheet and share it with editing permissions to that email.

3. Run export-chrome-history.py

And there you go! Visit the google doc you linked and it will contain all your browsing history.