Visited-CLI

Securely collect browsing history over browsers.

Getting started

Here is the getting started guide.

Firstly, clone the git, and change to the directory.

$ git clone [repo url] && cd visited 

And install the node packages.

$ npm install 

Next, generate a client program for browser. Run the following.

$ node visited.js --generate
✔ Port number? [default: 5555] …
File generated: ./visited.user.js

Now you have visited.user.js file generated, copy and paste the file content as your new userscript on your favorite userscript manager e.g. tampermonkey

Also note that you can paste the same to your browsers, Chrome profiles, and virtually integrate browsing history at the one place.

Next, start the server. Use -s or --server. Also note that --quiet for background run, --port for specifying the port number.

$ node visited.js --server

Now you're ready. Try go to any website, let's say youtube.com, and reload page (or just visit from the omnibox).

You can see the server detects your visiting and automatically saves the URL, host, date to the database visited.db.

$ node visited.js --server
server started...
message: {"url":"https://www.youtube.com/","host":"www.youtube.com"}

Now you can use a sqlite client such as DB Browser for SQLite, or built-in searching options, just like the following.

$ node visited.js --search --host youtube.com
[
    {
        "id": 1,
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/",
        "host": "www.youtube.com",
        "date": "6/23/2021, 3:52:02 PM",
        "timestamp": 1624431122
    }
]

The search term is regex compatible. This shows the same result as the above.

$ node visited.js --search --url 'you.*be\.com'

Requirements

git
build-essential
node
sqlite3-pcre (for searching)

Help

$ node visited.js
Usage: visited [options]

Options:
  -s, --server               set command type: server
  -p, --port <port>          (server) specify port number (default: 5555)
  -t, --timezone <timezone>  (server) specify timezone (default: "Asia/Tokyo")
  -q, --quiet                (server) disable log
  -s, --search               set command type: search
  -r, --regex                (search) enable regex extension for search (default: true)
  -u, --url <url>            (search) search by url (default: ".")
  --host <host>              (search) search by host (default: ".")
  --order <order>            (search) set order for search [desc, asc] (default: "desc")
  --limit <number>           (search) set limit for search (default: -1)
  -F, --format <format>      (search) output format [json, url] (default: "json")
  --pcre-path <file>         set sqlite3 pcre file path for search (default: "/usr/lib/sqlite3/pcre.so")
  -d, --database <file>      specify database file for index/search (default: "./visited.db")
  --generate                 generates client side userScript file
  --delete-database          delete database
  -y, --yes                  no confirmation prompt
  -h, --help                 display help for command