Visualize Your Chrome Browsing History

A lightweight tool to visualize your Chrome browsing history using Google Takeout data.

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Getting Started

Follow these steps to visualize your browsing history:

1. Initial Setup

Ensure you meet all requirements by following this guide.

2. Download Your Browsing Data

1. Learn how to download your Google data: Google Takeout Guide.
2. Download your data from Google Takeout.

Note: You only need to download your Chrome browsing history. Google provides it as a JSON file by default.

Save the History.json file in the same directory as the script.

3. Run the Script

Open your terminal or command prompt and execute the following command:

python main.py <file>

Replace <file> with the name of your downloaded History.json file (the name may vary).

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Script Usage

Command Syntax

main.py <file> [-h] [-s SIZE] [-d DAYS]

Positional Arguments:

• <file>: The JSON file downloaded from Google Takeout.

Optional Arguments:

• -h: Display help information.
• -s, --size: Number of top sites to display (default: 20).
• -d, --days: Number of recent days to analyze (default: 60).

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Examples

1. Basic usage with default settings:

   python main.py History.json

2. Display data from the last 50 days:

   python main.py History.json -d 50

3. Show the top 30 sites:

   python main.py History.json --size 30

4. Analyze 90 days and display the top 50 sites:

   python main.py History.json -s 50 --days 90