Hindsight is a command-line tool developed by Mozilla Services that allows you to query your Firefox browsing history using SQL-like syntax. If you are running Fedora CoreOS Latest and want to install and use Hindsight, this tutorial will guide you through the process.
Before you start, you need to ensure that you have the following:
Hindsight requires the following dependencies to run:
To install these dependencies, run the following command:
sudo dnf install python3 sqlite gcc libffi-devel python3-devel openssl-devel pip
Note: If your machine already has Python 3.6 or higher installed, you can skip it.
To install Hindsight, you need to clone the Hindsight repository and install it using pip. Follow the steps below:
git clone https://github.com/mozilla-services/hindsight.git
hindsight directory:cd hindsight
sudo pip3 install .
To verify that Hindsight has been installed correctly, run the following command:
hindsight --version
This command should display the version number of Hindsight.
Now that Hindsight has been installed, you can use it to query your Firefox browsing history. For example, the following command will display the URLs and visit times of all the websites you visited in the last 24 hours:
hindsight 'SELECT url, last_visit_date FROM moz_places WHERE last_visit_date IS NOT NULL AND last_visit_date >= strftime("%s", "now") - 86400 ORDER BY last_visit_date DESC;'
You can refer to the Hindsight documentation for more examples.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and used Hindsight on your Fedora CoreOS Latest machine.
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