recollfox

Export Firefox browsing history for Recoll to index.

A cron job runs every minute, exporting new history entries into Recoll's web queue format. Recoll indexes them on its next run.

Install

curl -sL blem.li/recollfox | sh

This downloads the export script, enables Recoll's web queue indexing, sets up a cron job (every minute), and backfills your existing history.

How it works

• Reads Firefox's places.sqlite (read-only, safe while Firefox is running)
• Exports each visited URL as a pair of files in ~/.recollweb/ToIndex/:
  • _<hash> — metadata (URL, title, type)
  • <hash> — minimal HTML with title and description
• Tracks the last exported timestamp to only process new entries
• Recoll picks up the queue files on its next indexing run

Uninstall

crontab -l | grep -v recollfox | crontab -
rm -rf ~/.local/share/recollfox