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Yash Ranadive
Yash Ranadive

Reputation: 41

How to Export Google Search History

Looks like Google has stopped supporting "Download Searches" button as mentioned here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6068625?hl=en . One option is to get history from Google Chrome using something like this https://gist.github.com/evidanary/d02d89c632530878163f256fe993d5a4 . But the history in Chrome is not complete and only goes back for a few months(guessing thats when I upgraded OS).

Does anyone know how to export the search history from beginning of time?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4474

Answers (2)

ccpizza
ccpizza

Reputation: 31686

Steps for any OS:

  1. Type about:version in the Chrome address bar and press Enter (also works for Chromium, Iridium, Brave, etc).
  2. Copy the path listed under Profile Path and close Chrome.
  3. Navigate to the profile folder and locate the file named History.
  4. The file is in the SQLite3 format and can be opened with any of the available GUIs, for example DB Browser for SQLite which is cross-platform, open-source and actively maintained.
  5. From the SQLite tables select the urls table to see all visited URLs. You can also use File > Export to get them as a CSV (Excel), JSON or SQL file.
  6. If you are using multiple Chrome profiles then repeat 1-5 for each profile.

Upvotes: 1

M M
M M

Reputation: 725

I stumbled upon this when I had to migrate data from one machine to another.

Google searches in chrome are saved along with chrome history. I migrated the complete chrome history and could get the autocomplete results for my past searches.

The search history for chrome is saved in the location

(~UserProfile)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Look for a file History inside this folder. This is the complete chrome history (or from the time you last cleared chrome history).

Upvotes: 0

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