Shell January 3, 2026 1 min read Updated June 26, 2026

Browse Brave Browser History

Interactively browse Brave Beta history from terminal using fzf

Terminal showing fzf fuzzy-searching Brave browser history

I wrote a small shell function that lets me browse my Brave Browser (Beta) history directly from the terminal, using fzf for interactive searching. This is similar to browsing Chrome history, but for Brave Beta.

The Function

brave-beta-history() {
  local cols sep brave_history open
  cols=$(( COLUMNS / 3 ))
  sep='{::}'

  if [ "$(uname)" = "Darwin" ]; then
    brave_history="$HOME/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Beta/Default/History"
    open=open
  else
    brave_history="$HOME/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Beta/Default/History"
    open=xdg-open
  fi

  cp -f "$brave_history" /tmp/bh
  sqlite3 -separator $sep /tmp/bh \
    "select substr(title, 1, $cols), url
     from urls order by last_visit_time desc" |
  awk -F $sep '{printf "%-'$cols's  \x1b[36m%s\x1b[m\n", $1, $2}' |
  fzf --ansi --multi | sed 's#.*\(https*://\)#\1#' | xargs $open > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
}