extract all urls from firefox sessionstore

sed -e "s/\[{/\n/g" -e "s/}, {/\n/g" sessionstore.js | grep url | awk -F"," '{ print $1 }'| sed -e "s/url:\"$[^\"]*$\"/\1/g" -e "/^about:blank/d" > session_urls.txt

This will extract all of the urls from a firefox session (including urls in a tab's history). The sessionstore.js file is in ~/.mozilla/firefox/{firefox profile}

By: birnam

2009-06-14 15:08:31

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Extract all urls from the last firefox sessionstore.js file used.

Require "grep -P" ( pcre ). If you don't have grep -P, use that : grep -Eo '"url":"[^"]+' $(ls -t ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | sed q) | cut -d'"' -f4
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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grep -oP '"url":"\K[^"]+' $(ls -t ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | sed q)

sputnick · 2009-12-09 20:34:32 5
Extract all urls from last firefox sessionstore used in a portable way.

If you want all the URLs from all the sessions, you can use : perl -lne 'print for /url":"\K[^"]+/g' ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js Thanks to tybalt89 ( idea of the "for" statement ). For perl purists, there's JSON and File::Slurp modules, buts that's not installed by default.
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perl -lne 'print for /url":"\K[^"]+/g' $(ls -t ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | sed q)

sputnick · 2009-12-14 00:51:54 3
Extract all urls from the last firefox sessionstore.js file used.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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sed -e 's/{"url":/\n&/g' ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | cut -d\" -f4

cfajohnson · 2009-12-10 04:31:31 5

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Or, from anywhere in user's workspace: sed -e "s/\[{/\n/g" -e "s/}, {/\n/g" "$(find $HOME -name "sessionstore.js")" | grep url | awk -F"," '{ print $1 }'| sed -e "s/url:\"$[^\"]*$\"/\1/g" -e "/^about:blank/d"

plasticdoc · 798 weeks and 3 days ago

Good update plasticdoc -- but be aware that this will pull urls from every sessionstore you have - so if you run multiple profiles of firefox like I do, this will return urls from all of them. This might be what you want, maybe not.

birnam · 798 weeks and 3 days ago

Starting from some version of Firefox (I have 63.0.1), now it stores session data in a user profile folder as usual, but using a json compressed format, with extension .jsonlz4

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