samwestby / internet-history-analysis

This project is a quick analysis of my Google Chrome browser history

internet-history-analysis

This project is a quick analysis of my BrowserHistory.json file from Google Chrome.

This video is me talking about what I learned.

Getting Going

Download this project and unzip it in your desired location.

Navigate to that location in a terminal.

Then create a virtual environment (OPTIONAL)

python3 -m virtualenv env

Activate it and install the required modules

Linux/Mac

source env/bin/activate
sudo python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Windows

source env/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Alternative assuming you have Python 3 installed:

pip install jupyter matplotlib scipy

Get your Chrome Browsing History

Navigate to takeout.google.com

Deselect all options except "Chrome"

Click on "All Chrome data included" and only select "Browsing History"

Click "Next"

Click "Export"

Wait for an email saying your file is ready

Open the email and click "Download"

Unzip that folder

Navigate to \takeout-XXXXXXX\Takeout\Chrome\BrowserHistory.json and copy that file into the directory for this project

Execute

In your terminal type

jupyter notebook

Follow the prompts to open the notebook.ipynb file.

Navigate to "notebook.ipynb"

Run each cell in the notebook

internet-history-analysis's Issues

Only ~365 days in past

Hey,

first, i really like what you coded here.
But i am asking myself, why the first entry is approx 1 year ago though i am using google chrome much longer. Is it the logfile itself, that does not deliver more data?