How do I add Safari history to default search results?

[smagdali]

Subject says all really. I tried adding 

 

~/Library/Safari to the Search Scope list in the hope that it would index the History sqlite db in there but no dice. This would be super useful - I rarely remember to bookmark anything.

[deanishe]

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/8783-safari-history-search-workflow/is probably the closest you can get.

 

The only way to get Safari history in default results is to use an external program that watches your History.db file and exports its contents to Spotlight-indexable files.

[smagdali]

(a few months later)

 

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/8783-safari-history-search-workflow/is probably the closest you can get.

 

The only way to get Safari history in default results is to use an external program that watches your History.db file and exports its contents to Spotlight-indexable files.

 

But doesn't Spotlight already index Safari history? It has an option for it in the prefs, and results appear when I do a spotlight search...

[deanishe]

Yup! I've been digging into this for a Safari workflow I'm working on.

It stores a whole bunch (many thousands) of .webhistory files in ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/History
 
Drag one of those to a File Filter to search your Safari history. I wouldn't recommend adding your history to your default scope, as the entries might overwhelm your other results.
 
The UTI is com.apple.safari.history
 
Safari also exports its bookmarks (to ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/Bookmarks with the extension .webbookmark and UTI com.apple.safari.bookmark).
 
 
OmniFocus also exports its metadata to files under ~/Library/Caches/Metadata. I hope this is something a lot of apps start doing. It's very handy.