This program helps you to clean your macOS Safari history and recent closed tabs for selectable url or regular expressions. Criteria are stored in a seperat text file.

Project is build with maven and Java 1.8. Just create a new maven project and run:

$ mvn clean
$ mvn package

To execute:

$ java -jar SafariHistoryClean-0.7.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar
        -d "/Users/.../Library/Safari/History.db"
        -p "/Users/.../Library/Safari/RecentlyClosedTabs.plist"
        -s "{executionPath}/searchExpressions.txt"

All parameters are optional. If nothing is applied the default values are as listed above.

Search file:

Each line of the search file is read as one regex statement and checked against the saved urls in Safari history. The file should look like this:

www\.google\.com
www\.google.*
.*google.*
^([^\/]*)(\/{0}|\/{2})([^\/]*)google.*$

It is preferred to use the last pattern to match all entries with given domain and not just a key word inside url.

Go to eg. https://regex101.com for evaluation of your regular expressions.

In some situations the database can be damaged and Safari isn't able to read the database and quits. For this reason a backup file (History_backup.db) is created. Just delete the database file, rename the backup and restart Safari or complete delete database file if it is not needed. Still investigating the issue and searching for a solution...

Update: It seems, that since Safari 11 the database won't be unreadable anymore. Further observations required! Stay tuned...

Use this program at your own risk. I'm not responsible if something goes wrong.

(Code is quite a little bit messy... It will be fixed at ongoing progress.)

External libs:

• sqlite-jdbc 3.20.1
• dd-plist 1.16