FirefoxJson

firefox-json is a library to view and/or manipulate the json files in Firefox profiles.

It's capable of reading both the older .js and the new .jsonlz4 files.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'firefox-json'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install firefox-json

Usage

For now, all the library can do is manipulate sessions - the window and tab collections.

Getting a session

FirefoxJson.available_profiles
=> ["default", "some-other-profile"]
session = FirefoxJson.load_profile('default').session
=> #<Firefox::Session# windows=1 closed=1>

Digging in

session.closed_windows
=> [#<Firefox::Window closed! tabs=1 selected="Some Title">]
_[0].tabs
=> [#<Firefox::Tab entries=1 selected="Some Title">]
e = _[0].entries[0]
=> #<Firefox::Entry http://www.site.com/a-page>
e.public_methods - Object.methods
=> [:url, :title, :referrer, :domain, :dump, :path, :path=, :save, :required_key, :reload]
e.referrer
=> "https://www.google.com/long-search-string"
e.domain
=> "www.site.com"

Recovering a closed window

session.windows << session.closed_windows.shift # you can add `.tap { |w| w.is_closed = false }` to remove the `closed!` part
=> [#<Firefox::Window tabs=15 closed=2 selected="Google">, #<Firefox::Window closed! tabs=3 selected="Ruby Programming Language">]
session
=> #<Firefox::Session# windows=2>
session.save # or session.save('some_other_file.js')

Development

After checking out the repo, run bundle install to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/reist/firefox-json.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the ISC License.