使用Java从Web浏览器的下载管理器中检索数据

Question

I want to try creating a program that can automate the storing of web address that is available on every downloaded file on a web browser.

My problem is I don't know where to start.

What am I planning to do is just save all the downloaded file's web addresses in a excel file.

Sample image using google chrome

Answer 1

I think Firefox stores the download history in the places.sqlite file in your Profile folder. You would need to open and read that file, but you probably can't while Firefox is open (it has the file open).

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.sqlite

From there, you can process the data in your Java app and then write an Excel file, perhaps using Apache POI (the Java API for Microsoft Documents)

https://poi.apache.org/

Answer 2

Where and how, download history is stored varies from browser to browser . In case of Chrome on Mac it is store in the path ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/DownloadMetadata as SQLite format.

You need to write an application to parse the data and create xls