File::Mork - a module to read Mozilla URL history files
my $mork = File::Mork->new($filename, verbose => 1)
|| die $File::Mork::ERROR."\n";
foreach my $entry ($mork->entries) {
while (my($key,$val) = each %$entry) {
printf ("%14s = %s\n", $key, $val);
}
}
This is a module that can read the Mozilla URL history file -- normally $HOME/.mozilla/default/*.slt/history.dat -- and extract the id, url, name, hostname, first visted dat, last visited date and visit count.
To find your history file it might be worth using Mozilla::Backup which has some platform-independent code for finding the profiles of various Mozilla-isms (including Firefox, Camino, K-Meleon, etc.).
Takes a filename and parses that file.
Returns undef on error, setting $File::Mork::Error.
Takes an optional hash of options
A value up to 3 - defines the level of verbosity
A ctime which forces File::Mork to only parse entries later than this.
Internal method to parse the file. Obviously.
Return a list of File::Mork::Entry objects sorted by LastVisitDate.
Internal method to set the internal error message
Internal method to print out a debug message if it's a higher priority than the the current verbosity level.
Extracted from mork.pl
In Netscape Navigator 1.0 through 4.0, the history.db file was just a Berkeley DBM file. You could trivially bind to it from Perl, and pull out the URLs and last-access time. In Mozilla, this has been replaced with a "Mork" database for which no tools exist.
Let me make it clear that McCusker is a complete barking lunatic. This is just about the stupidest file format I've ever seen.
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.txt http://jwz.livejournal.com/312657.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241438
In brief, let's count its sins:
Pure comedy.
Module-ised by Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>
based on
http://www.jwz.org/hacks/mork.pl
Created: 3-Mar-2004 by Jamie Zawinski, Anonymous, and Jacob Post.
Copyright © 2004 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
Might be a bit memory heavy? Could do with an iterator interface.
Can't write Mork dbs.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/312657.html
http://www.erys.org/resume/netscape/mork/jwz.html
File::Mork::Entry - an single entry in a mork DB
All methods except new take an optional argument to set them.
blesses %opts into the class File::Mork::Entry
The internal id of the entry
The url visited
The name of the url visited
The hostname of the url visited
The first time this url was visited as a ctime
The last time this url was visited as a ctime
Whether this URL is hidden from the history list or not
The number of times this url has been visited
The byte order - this is associated with ID number 1.
