Export IE History to File
The Internet Explorer history is stored by default in %userprofile%\Local Settings\History
The browsing history is not stored as a regualar file, its all contained in an invisible dat file. The file can be viewed using explorer but the view is shown in the format of daily browsing.
Microsoft provides not method to export/backup Internet Explorer History files.
A Free thirdparty tool I have found does come to the rescue. Called IEHistoryView by Nir Sofer.
This simple EXE allow you to view the history on screen in a simple viewer or you can pipe the output to a text file using a command line switch /stext
It even allows tab delimited, or html output options
Once its a text or CSV file you can easily mine the data which is what i required for my solution.
The browsing history is not stored as a regualar file, its all contained in an invisible dat file. The file can be viewed using explorer but the view is shown in the format of daily browsing.
Microsoft provides not method to export/backup Internet Explorer History files.
A Free thirdparty tool I have found does come to the rescue. Called IEHistoryView by Nir Sofer.
This simple EXE allow you to view the history on screen in a simple viewer or you can pipe the output to a text file using a command line switch /stext
It even allows tab delimited, or html output options
Once its a text or CSV file you can easily mine the data which is what i required for my solution.
posted by Tomo at
Thursday, April 02, 2009
