Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Google Chrome Log Parser

Google Chrome has been out for about a week and here is my first attempt to create a program that will parse out all the chrome logs and put together some useful reports. The program can be found here.

Just like Firefox, Chrome also stores their logs into a SQLite database. Some of these logs are very similar to the Firefox logs. One thing to note is that Chrome is not very consistent with which format they use for date/time. In some logs they use Unix Epoch time (Jan 1 1970) and in others they use Microsoft Epoch time (Jan 1 1601). Chrome also stores a thumbnail of web pages in these logs as well. These thumbnails are used when you fist start chrome to show you 9 pages you have visited. With the above log parser it will pull these thumbnails out and present them in the reports as well.

As I stated above this program is a work in progress and there is still more research to be done to make it a better. I just wanted to get it out to all you guys to start to play with it.

As always Questions/Comments/Suggestions.

7 comments:

Jason Koppe said...

Interesting work, have you been paying attention to the Chrome Development Documentation or just reversing their stuff?

Mark McKinnon said...

Jason,

I have never looked at the Chrome Development Documentation but I do have quite a bit of experience with both SQLite and Database design. So to answer your questions I guess I have been reversing it. I was able to determine quite a bit just by looking at the databases, that is where I saw the similarities between the database structure Firefox used and Chrome.

There are a few things I will have to test out to confirm some things, and I hope to get that accomplished in the next couple of weeks but that will depend on time.

Thanks for taking a look at it. Hopefully I will add a installer in the future like I have with the skype logs parser.

Mark

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