Historian reads various informations from raw browser files like the history, cookies, bookmarks and downloaded files. The most common webbrowsers are supported. The extracted data can be written to text files or into a Microsoft Excel CSV table. Read web browser data and export it to a CSV table or TXT file.

Supported file formats:
1. Google Chrome
Cookies, Downloads, Favorites (Bookmarks), History

2. Internet Explorer
Cookies, Favorites (Bookmarks), URL Cache (History, Cookies and Cache information)

3. Mozilla (Netscape / Gecko / Firefox 1.x / 2.x)
Cookies, Downloads, Favorites (Bookmarks), Form field data, History

4. Mozilla Firefox 3.x
Cookies, Downloads, Favorites (Bookmarks), Form field data, History

5. Opera
Favorites (Bookmarks), History, Cache information, Downloads

6. Windows
Recycle Bin (INFO2), Prefetch files, Shortcut files (links)

Historian can be an individual file, and export multiple files at a time. When exporting multiple files is important to note that all files must have the same format.

About Open the menu "File> source files ..." the files can be added to the processing list. Alternatively, files can be moved by drag and drop into the program window. On the basis of the first file in the list Historian seeks to recognize the file format automatically. However, it is attempted in any case, read out with the set format the data, since not always a valid file header is necessary to extract the data correctly.

About the "Automatic detection" can be automatically detected again after manually changing the source format, the format.

Unrecognized database of Mozilla Firefox 3 (*. sqlite) are regarded as history files. In the file "places.sqlite" are both the course and also contain the bookmarks. If the automatic detection always the format for the course (History) is chosen. If the bookmarks to be exported, the format must be changed manually.

Google Chrome saves the downloads, the favorite and the course in a database ("History"). Historian chooses from these files are always the course. If the bookmarks or downloads are to be exported, the format must be changed manually.

Under "Output File" can be determined whether each exported file to be processed separately, or whether all the source files should be written in a single file. If the option chosen for each source file separately "is, for each file, depending on the selected export format, a single created. This is added to the original file name the appropriate file extension. Thus, the output of the file cookies.txt "," when exporting to a CSV table in the file "cookies.txt.csv" and export in text format in the file "cookies.txt.txt" written.

If the option "No file selected, a file name must be specified for export. The predefined file name can specify the button "...", the menu "File> Output file ..." or be changed by drag and drop.

The last setting before you extract the data is to determine the export format. The data can be output in any ANSI text files. Formats for the output in text format and a CSV table (which can be read by Microsoft Excel) are included.

Should one or more output files already exist, is in demand before the extraction, whether these should be overwritten. The query and the choices made affect all output files.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this browser tool software.