Hindsight – Web browser Forensics for Google Chrome
Hindsight is a free tool for analyzing web artifacts. It started with the browsing history of the Google Chrome web browser and has expanded to support other Chromium-based applications (with more to come!).

Hindsight can parse a number of different types of web artifacts, including URLs, download history, cache records, bookmarks, autofill records, saved passwords, preferences, browser extensions, HTTP cookies, and Local Storage records (HTML5 cookies).
Once the data is extracted from each file, it is correlated with data from other history files and placed in a timeline.
Some of the command line options are:
- -i or –input Path to the Chrome(ium) “Default” directory
- -o or –output Name of the output file (without extension)
- -f or –format Output format (default is XLSX, other options are SQLite and JSONL)
- -c or –cache Path to the cache directory; only needed if the directory is outside the given “input” directory. Mac systems are setup this way by default.
- -b or –browser_type The type of browser the input files belong to. Supported options are Chrome (default) and Brave.
- -l or –log Location Hindsight should log to (will append if exists)
- -h or –help Shows these options and the default Chrome data locations
- -t or –timezone Display timezone for the timestamps in XLSX output
You can read more and download this tool over here: https://github.com/obsidianforensics/hindsight
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