Question

I have a local web client that uses webSQL to store its data client side. (Yes I know its been deprecated).

I also have a python script that generates a report and grabs its data from a mdb file right now using a driver.

I was wondering if it was possible to grab my data from google chrome’s webSQL db through python.

I’m not sure how to call one of the db files in google chrome from a python script or if its even possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Ok so my co-worker figured it out.

On windows you go to:

C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\databases

There’s a bunch of databases here for different websites that use sqlite.

And then the python script is as easy this:

import sqlite3

conn = sqlite3.connect(<dbFile>)
cursor = conn.cursor()


print "\nHere's a listing of all the records in the table:\n"
for row in cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM <TableName>"):
    print row