Extracts browser history from Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Firefox, Safari, Edge. Run web-recap --help for all flags.
Prerequisite
The web-recap CLI must be installed and on PATH. Check with web-recap --help; if missing, install a release binary (macOS Apple Silicon shown — pick the matching asset for your platform):
curl -L https://github.com/robzolkos/web-recap/releases/latest/download/web-recap-darwin-arm64 -o ~/.local/bin/web-recap
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/web-recap
Or build from source (needs Go 1.21+):
git clone https://github.com/robzolkos/web-recap.git && cd web-recap && go build ./cmd/web-recap
Key Flags
--date YYYY-MM-DD Specific date (local timezone)
--start-date YYYY-MM-DD Start of range
--end-date YYYY-MM-DD End of range
--time HH Specific hour (e.g., --time 14 for 2pm-3pm)
--browser NAME chrome|firefox|safari|edge|brave|auto
Output Format
JSON with entries array. Each entry has: timestamp, url, title, domain, visit_count, browser.
Usage Patterns
Never dump raw output. Use jq to reduce tokens.
Search (find URLs by topic)
# Find entries matching a topic (searches title, domain, url)
web-recap | jq '[.entries[] | select(.title + .domain + .url | test("KEYWORD"; "i"))] | unique_by(.url) | map({title, url, domain})'
Stats (visit overview)
# Domain counts, sorted by visits
web-recap | jq '[.entries[].domain] | group_by(.) | map({domain: .[0], count: length}) | sort_by(-.count)'
Quick metadata
web-recap | jq '{start: .start_date, end: .end_date, total: .total_entries}'