WEBHISTORY Converter

Extract text from Safari history files (WEBHISTORY)


Drop or upload your .WEBHISTORY file
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How to extract text from your WEBHISTORY file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WEBHISTORY file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert WEBHISTORY to another file type

To convert WEBHISTORY history files to another format, you need Apple Safari or other Data software.

Convert a file to WEBHISTORY

To convert other file formats to the "Safari History Log" file type, you need software like Apple Safari or a similar tool.


About WEBHISTORY files

The .webhistory file format stores browsing history for Apple Safari on macOS and iOS devices. These files maintain a continuous record of visited URLs, page titles, and access timestamps. Under the hood, a .webhistory file is typically an Apple Property List (PLIST) file, often encoded in a binary format rather than plain text. Because these files are encoded as binary data, they are practically unreadable in standard text editors. Users frequently need to extract this data for backup purposes, digital forensics, or migrating web history to non-Apple browsers on Windows or Linux environments. The primary disadvantage of the .webhistory format is its strict tie to the Apple ecosystem. It requires specialized parsers or Apple hardware to open natively, and the binary encoding prevents quick inspection. To make the data usable, you should convert .webhistory to CSV, XML, or TXT. Converting to CSV allows you to view the URL history cleanly in spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. Note that during conversion, complex Apple-specific metadata might be dropped, leaving only the essential URLs and dates. Converting this file is difficult because standard online converters fail to parse the proprietary binary structures of Apple's history logs. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible. Just drag and drop your file to see what it is and convert it if supported.

Convert.Guru analyzes your WEBHISTORY file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert WEBHISTORY file to HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY, RB or PL, you can use Apple Safari or similar software from the "Web Browser History Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to WEBHISTORY, try Apple Safari or another comparable tool in the "Web Browser History Storage" category.



The WEBHISTORY Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our WEBHISTORY converter.