Question

I want to display all the Internet History Information of a system using Python. The index.dat file holds all the history information of user, but it’s encoded. How can I decode it?

[I have heard about WinInet Method INTERNET_CACHE_ENTRY_INFO. It provides information about websites visited, hit counts, etc.]

Are there any libraries available in Python for achieving this? If not, are there any alternatives available?

Answer 1

Code to get the URL only from index.dat file(History of IE Only)

import sys,os
from string import *
from binascii import *
from chardet import *
import re
arr=[]
ar=[]
st=""
url=""
lines=[]

def removenonascii(s):

    l=""
    for i in s:
        if(ord(i)==46 or ord(i)==47 or ord(i)==72 or ord(i) in range(97,97+26) or ord(i) in range(65,65+26)):
        l=l+i
    lines=l.split('\n')


    for line in lines:
        if line.startswith("http"):
            print line.split("URL")[0]

infile =open("C:\Users\Cho\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History\History.IE5\MSHist012012030720120308\index.dat","r")
for line in infile:
    arr=line.split("Cho")

for s in arr:
    removenonascii(s)
    print s