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With speclear, you can delete sepcific history items in major installed browsers such as chrome, firefox, opera and safari in Windows. For Internet explorer (IE), specific segregation is not possible hence speclear will delete all IE history items. To prevent this, you can comment function ie_clear().
See below for more details.
$ pip install speclear
Either via python module:
import speclear
speclear.delete_history('string-1', 'string-2',...)
Or via command line:
C:\Program Files\Python37\speclear_pkg\speclear>python3 -m speclear string-1 string-2
Sample output:
Info:: string(s) to be deleted: string-1 string-2 ...
Warning:: for chrome (profile 1) database seems locked, please close the browser
Info:: for chrome (profile 2), number of rows deleted is: 0
Info:: for chrome (profile 3), number of rows deleted is: 0
Info:: for firefox (profile 1), number of rows deleted is: 0
Info:: Browser not found: opera
Info:: Browser not found: safari
Info:: IE cleared
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speclear - delete specific history in major windows browsers
We found that speclear demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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