# RyanDFIR/hindsight

Browser forensics tool for Google Chrome, other Chromium-based browsers, and Mozilla Firefox

Repository: https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ryandfir-hindsight
Homepage: https://dfir.blog/hindsight/
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: google-chrome, hindsight, chrome, forensics, dfir, browser-forensics, firefox, mozilla-firefox
Last push: 2026-08-23T04:11:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 88/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 68, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4486, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": 56, "gap_med": 108.5, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1497, forks 183 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:53.595551+00:00)

## What it is
Hindsight is a free Python-based browser forensics tool that parses web artifacts (history, downloads, cache, cookies, bookmarks, autofill, saved passwords, extensions, Local Storage, and more) from Google Chrome, other Chromium-based browsers, and Mozilla Firefox. It correlates extracted data into a unified timeline and offers both a command-line interface and a local web GUI, with output to XLSX, SQLite, or JSONL.

## Use cases
- analyze chrome browsing history for a forensic investigation
- extract cookies and downloads from a chrome profile
- parse firefox places.sqlite history and bookmarks
- build a timeline of user web activity from browser artifacts
- recover deleted browser history during an incident response
- export browser artifacts to a spreadsheet for review
- investigate synced chrome activity across devices

## When to choose
- you need to examine Chrome/Chromium or Firefox profile artifacts in a DFIR investigation
- you want a free, scriptable tool with CLI and GUI options and structured output formats
- you need cross-browser artifact correlation in a single timeline

## When to avoid
- you need to analyze non-Chromium, non-Firefox browsers like Safari or Edge legacy profiles
- you need a general-purpose disk or memory forensics suite rather than browser-specific parsing
- you require a supported enterprise product with vendor support

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: parser, developer-tools, data-science
- domain: security, privacy, developer-tools, files
- platform: python, cross-platform, cli, windows
- tags: dfir, browser-forensics, digital-forensics, incident-response, chrome, firefox, chromium, web-artifacts, timeline-analysis, sqlite, forensics, web-server, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- RyanDFIR/hindsight (main) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:53.595551+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:07.681376+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:53.595551+00:00, sha 4e881bfa3aef)
  - homepage: https://dfir.blog/hindsight/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:38:26.270030+00:00, sha de50b48e283c)
  - site_page: https://dfir.blog/hindsight-parses-firefox (fetched 2026-08-29T11:38:26.272827+00:00, sha 165bd981f866)
  - site_page: https://dfir.blog/hindsight-v2026-01 (fetched 2026-08-29T11:38:26.275210+00:00, sha 4ce97729db38)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.