Export Safari history and bookmarks
One file per day of history, per bookmark folder, per Reading List page and per device's tabs, kept in sync on your Mac.
A day of history, as a file.
The day's topics in the front matter, then a heading per hour and a line per visit, newest first, with the site's icon, Safari's topics for the page and Safari's own few lines of it.
---
title: "Safari History - 2026-10-20"
id: "2026-10-20"
created: 2026-10-20T00:00:00
modified: 2026-10-20T00:00:00
topics:
- "Lisbon"
- "Weather"
---
# Safari History - 2026-10-20
Total visits: 3
## 08:00 - 08:59
- **08:41:12** - ![[../icons/weather.example.net.png|16]] [Lisbon weather](https://weather.example.net/lisbon) [about:: Lisbon, Weather] ^sh-202610200
> Sunny all week, 24 degrees by the river.What comes out
Each kind Safari keeps in a folder of its own inside safari-export, ticked on the card's Kinds tab.
Every visit with its time and title, a heading per hour, every Safari profile in the same files. A day Safari forgets keeps its file.
A file per bookmark folder as Safari names them, and a file per Reading List page: when you saved it, whether you read it, Safari's preview.
On macOS 27, Safari's own few lines of each page and its topics, the Wikidata entities it tags pages with, and each site's icon.
With Safari's data folder connected: this Mac's windows and pinned tabs, the tabs on your iPhone and iPad, and every Tab Group. Private windows are never read.
Recently Closed, your downloads a month at a time, kept after Safari forgets them, Top Sites, each site's settings, the Privacy Report and the pages you asked Safari to watch.
Exporter reads Safari's files on your Mac and writes yours there. Nothing goes to a server. Page Text, off until you tick it, fetches what you kept from the web without your cookies.
How it works
- 1Connect Safari
Pick Safari's folder in the panel Exporter opens, so it may read your history and bookmarks.
- 2Choose what syncs
Kinds, sites, bookmark folders, Reading List pages and tabs, all ticked. Untick what you don't want.
- 3It syncs
Your files arrive as Markdown, and follow as you browse.
How it works: Safari docsGuides: Keep Safari historySafari to Obsidian
Questions
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What does it cost?
Which Mac does it need?
What about my open tabs?
Does anything leave my Mac?
Can I use the files in Obsidian or Claude?
Is private browsing exported?
Against the alternatives
Safari's File › Export Browsing Data to File writes your bookmarks as HTML and your history as JSON in a zip, once, by hand.
| Feature | Exporter | Safari's own export | Copy and paste |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | Yes, a file a day | Once, as JSON | By hand |
| Bookmarks and Reading List | Yes | Once, as HTML | By hand |
| Open tabs and Tab Groups | Yes | No | By hand |
| Kept in sync | Yes | No | No |
| Price | 10 days free, then a one-time purchase | Free | Free |
