BrowseAudit

A Python script to read your OS X Safari history file and privately list your most frequently visited website domains. Output includes HTML, CSV, and listing to stdout.

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Installation

In a command line, please run the following:

$ git clone git@github.com:kickingvegas/BrowseAudit.git

Note that BrowseAudit uses the 3rd party Python module publicsuffix as a git submodule. Please disregard any GitHub generated tar.gz or .zip links as the publicsuffix submodule source will not be included in them.

Quick Start Using Make

Run the following:

To generate a HTML file index.html and open via Finder:

$ make html

To generate a CSV file output.csv and open via Finder:

$ make csv

To display results on stdout:

$ make

To get help:

$ make help

Operation by Example

The basic operation of BrowseAudit is:

$ python browseaudit.py

To generate a HTML file index.html:

$ python browseaudit.py -H

To generate a CSV file output.csv:

$ python browseaudit.py -C

To get help:

$ python browseaudit.py -h

Recent Changes

Fix Makefile to properly install Python publicsuffix as a git submodule.

Licenses

BrowseAudit

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Author: Charles Y. Choi charles.choi@yummymelon.com

Public Suffix

Python module included in this distribution is based on the code downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/python-public-suffix-list/, which is available under the following license:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The Public Suffix List included in this distribution has been downloaded from http://publicsuffix.org/ and is covered by a separate license. Please see the license block at the top of the file itself.