Tuesday, 19 June 2012

How to get Browser History in Android?

Call below function.

public void getBrowserHist()  {
        Cursor mCur = managedQuery(Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI,
                Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION, null, null, null);
        mCur.moveToFirst();
        if (mCur.moveToFirst() && mCur.getCount() > 0) {
            while (mCur.isAfterLast() == false) {
                Log.v("titleIdx", mCur
                        .getString(Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION_TITLE_INDEX));
                Log.v("urlIdx", mCur
                        .getString(Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION_URL_INDEX));
                mCur.moveToNext();
           }
      }
}


Add below uses-permission into your manifest file.

<uses-permission android:name="com.android.browser.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS"/>

Enjoy :-)

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25 comments:

  1. Mohammad Fahmi Aris3 January 2013 at 08:04

    where to implement this code?
    thanks.

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    1. Anonymous3 January 2013 at 20:54

      Hello,

      You can Call above function from your button click event of GetHistory Button or call it from your onCreate() method also.

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  2. Unknown6 January 2013 at 10:50

    How i can use ListView for history and bookmarks?

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    1. Anonymous6 January 2013 at 20:44

      Hello,

      Store Titles and Urls into array and then you can easily display this data in listview.

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    2. Unknown7 January 2013 at 03:53

      I need fast some code for it!
      Please write some easy code.
      I was try many codes, but I still failed!

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    3. Anonymous7 January 2013 at 20:35

      Hello,

      First Define 2 Arraylist, first for Titles and second for Urls

      ArrayList mTitles=new ArrayList();
      ArrayList mUrls=new ArrayList();

      and then write below code for add Titles and Urls into while loop.

      mTitles,add(mCur.getString(Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION_TITLE_INDEX));
      mUrls,add(mCur.getString(Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION_URL_INDEX));

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  3. Unknown21 April 2013 at 03:43

    Can you provide me the full code with main and manifest file.??

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    1. Unknown17 March 2014 at 22:08

      Activity_main::---







      --------------------------------------------------------
      MainActivity.java::------


      import java.util.ArrayList;

      import android.os.Bundle;
      import android.provider.Browser;
      import android.app.Activity;
      import android.database.Cursor;
      import android.util.Log;
      import android.view.Menu;
      import android.widget.TextView;

      public class MainActivity extends Activity {

      @Override
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
      TextView view = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.hello);
      String[] projection = new String[] {
      Browser.BookmarkColumns.TITLE
      , Browser.BookmarkColumns.URL
      };
      Cursor mCur = managedQuery(android.provider.Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI,
      projection, null, null, null
      );
      mCur.moveToFirst();
      int titleIdx = mCur.getColumnIndex(Browser.BookmarkColumns.TITLE);
      int urlIdx = mCur.getColumnIndex(Browser.BookmarkColumns.URL);
      while (mCur.isAfterLast() == false) {
      view.append("n" + mCur.getString(titleIdx));
      view.append("n" + mCur.getString(urlIdx));
      mCur.moveToNext();
      }

      }
      }
      --------------------------------------------------------
      Manifest.xml:::-----------




















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  4. Unknown4 May 2013 at 11:45

    please I would be surely thankful to you if you could please provide me with the source code
    thanks

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  5. VIVEK RAVI6 March 2014 at 05:00

    Hi
    Is it possible to get other browsers history(not default browser) in android mobile?

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  6. Unknown1 April 2014 at 20:55

    in my code we can get all the browser history..

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    1. Unknown21 May 2014 at 00:39

      please any body provide the source code for favorites or bookmark in android.

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    2. Unknown3 March 2015 at 02:33

      please provide code for all browser history.
      i can get only default browser history

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    3. Unknown5 May 2015 at 03:06

      This code working for Chrome and Internet explorer only,not for Mozilla Firefor.

      How to get the history from firefox.(kindly send yr reply to this mail also-jeeva2k10@gmail.com)

      Thanks

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    4. Anonymous7 July 2019 at 01:55

      @Mandani Navneet, please share the source code to get only default browser history.

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    5. Anonymous7 July 2019 at 01:58

      @jeeva nandham, not working for chrome or other, always cursor.getCount = 0;

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  7. Gohar2 June 2014 at 01:23

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  8. Unknown11 November 2014 at 22:23

    in my project i need to get get date and time with browser history . when i try to get date and time it gives null .
    can you help me plz

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  9. Unknown24 September 2015 at 05:10

    Can you guide me on how to get the date and time for the browser history.
    This is my email: tansc6@gmail.com
    Thank you in advance.

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  10. Unknown15 February 2016 at 22:17

    can you tell me how to clear history and give me full code of java file

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  11. Unknown23 April 2016 at 23:34

    I'm getting both bookmarks and history as a single thing how can i differentiate both?

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  12. Unknown9 May 2016 at 05:12

    Nice method to transfer content, quite helpful.

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  13. Unknown8 October 2016 at 01:17

    how to delete the browser history api level above 23

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  14. Ankeet Singh14 January 2017 at 21:56

    how to make a browser that stores it's history and bookmarks like other browser's uc browser and opera and dolphin

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  15. Unknown7 June 2017 at 08:18

    Those APIs were removed in the Android 7.0 SDK, IIRC. They were never a particularly good idea in the first place. Is there anything we can do?

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