web-recap

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}'