Google Chrome History reader

If you have Google Chrome installed and it is used for web browsing, we can show you where to locate the history database file and interpret it for you

Using this free service, you can upload the cryptic data, analyze it and export it to Excel in a more readable format

Windows

We are looking to get to the following folder for a file called History

C:\Users\*your username*\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

We can use the %appdata% shortcut to get to the AppData folder for the current user before navigating through the subfolders.

Press the Windows Key + R to bring up the Run dialog

Type %AppData% as above and press enter

A Windows Explorer folder will open. If it opens into a folder called Roaming, you will need to go up one level to the AppData root folder.

Now go to a Local folder.

There will be a lot of folders in here. Scroll down to a folder called Google, then Chrome and then User Data.

Scroll past the folders here until you get to the files and a file called History.

It should look like this:

This History file is the file we want to upload. When you press the Choose File button below, navigate to this file use the steps above before pressing upload.

Google records the times in UTC (a Coordinated Universal Time) format. Choose the correct time zone that you live in (or one closest to you) and we will convert the time.

Your Time zone: Dateline Standard Time UTC-11 Aleutian Standard Time Hawaiian Standard Time Marquesas Standard Time Alaskan Standard Time UTC-09 Pacific Standard Time (Mexico) UTC-08 Pacific Standard Time US Mountain Standard Time Mountain Standard Time (Mexico) Mountain Standard Time Yukon Standard Time Central America Standard Time Central Standard Time Easter Island Standard Time Central Standard Time (Mexico) Canada Central Standard Time SA Pacific Standard Time Eastern Standard Time (Mexico) Eastern Standard Time Haiti Standard Time Cuba Standard Time US Eastern Standard Time Turks And Caicos Standard Time Atlantic Standard Time Venezuela Standard Time Central Brazilian Standard Time SA Western Standard Time Pacific SA Standard Time Newfoundland Standard Time Tocantins Standard Time Paraguay Standard Time E. South America Standard Time SA Eastern Standard Time Argentina Standard Time Montevideo Standard Time Magallanes Standard Time Saint Pierre Standard Time Bahia Standard Time UTC-02 Greenland Standard Time Mid-Atlantic Standard Time Azores Standard Time Cape Verde Standard Time UTC GMT Standard Time Greenwich Standard Time Sao Tome Standard Time Morocco Standard Time W. Europe Standard Time Central Europe Standard Time Romance Standard Time Central European Standard Time W. Central Africa Standard Time GTB Standard Time Middle East Standard Time Egypt Standard Time E. Europe Standard Time West Bank Standard Time South Africa Standard Time FLE Standard Time Israel Standard Time South Sudan Standard Time Kaliningrad Standard Time Sudan Standard Time Libya Standard Time Namibia Standard Time Jordan Standard Time Arabic Standard Time Syria Standard Time Turkey Standard Time Arab Standard Time Belarus Standard Time Russian Standard Time E. Africa Standard Time Volgograd Standard Time Iran Standard Time Arabian Standard Time Astrakhan Standard Time Azerbaijan Standard Time Russia Time Zone 3 Mauritius Standard Time Saratov Standard Time Georgian Standard Time Caucasus Standard Time Afghanistan Standard Time West Asia Standard Time Qyzylorda Standard Time Ekaterinburg Standard Time Pakistan Standard Time India Standard Time Sri Lanka Standard Time Nepal Standard Time Central Asia Standard Time Bangladesh Standard Time Omsk Standard Time Myanmar Standard Time SE Asia Standard Time Altai Standard Time W. Mongolia Standard Time North Asia Standard Time N. Central Asia Standard Time Tomsk Standard Time China Standard Time North Asia East Standard Time Singapore Standard Time W. Australia Standard Time Taipei Standard Time Ulaanbaatar Standard Time Aus Central W. Standard Time Transbaikal Standard Time Tokyo Standard Time North Korea Standard Time Korea Standard Time Yakutsk Standard Time Cen. Australia Standard Time AUS Central Standard Time E. Australia Standard Time AUS Eastern Standard Time West Pacific Standard Time Tasmania Standard Time Vladivostok Standard Time Lord Howe Standard Time Bougainville Standard Time Russia Time Zone 10 Magadan Standard Time Norfolk Standard Time Sakhalin Standard Time Central Pacific Standard Time Russia Time Zone 11 New Zealand Standard Time UTC+12 Fiji Standard Time Kamchatka Standard Time Chatham Islands Standard Time UTC+13 Tonga Standard Time Samoa Standard Time Line Islands Standard Time

We will convert the SQL Lite database with its Unix timestamps and Unicode titles into a human readable format, display statistics and allow you to download as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.