browser-tools for Chromium

A Node.js package that can retrieve data from the user data directory in Chromium. Examples of this type of data are: accounts, history, and cookies. It is supposed to work on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems but the default location for the user data directory varies.

Building

You'll need Node.js installed on your computer in order to build this app.

$ git clone https://github.com/Phoqe/browser-tools
$ cd browser-tools
$ npm install

If you don't wish to clone, you can download the source code.

User Data Directory

Every public function has a parameter where you can specify a custom path for the user data file you want to access, I've gathered some paths here from the Chromium website.

Windows 10 / 8 / 7

• Google Chrome: C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
• Chromium: C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Chromium\User Data\Default

Mac OS X

• Google Chrome: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
• Chromium: ~/Library/Application Support/Chromium/Default

Linux

• Google Chrome: ~/.config/google-chrome/Default
• Chromium: ~/.config/chromium/Default

Chrome OS

• /home/chronos/

Decrypting passwords

Passwords and some other data are encrypted, to decrypt these you can use this C# function featured in the C# version of BrowserTools. You have to add a reference to the System.Security namespace.

private static string Decrypt(string data)
{
    if(data == null)
    {
        return null;
    }

    byte[] decryptedData = ProtectedData.Unprotect(System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(data), null, DataProtectionScope.CurrentUser);
    return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decryptedData);
}

Contributing

Feel free to send PRs and create issues regarding anything pretty much. An example on what you can do is adding more browsers to the private getBrowserPath function.