Create page_state.py

[yearski]

PageState object can parse and structure data from ccl_chromium_snss2.NavigationEntry.page_state_raw

[yearski]

This code is reverse-engineered and "hackey". It was not properly designed based on knowledge of how the raw data was encoded but rather by experimentally finding something that works. Assumptions were made which may not be valid in all cases, but worked for me. I hope it's useful to others as is, or serves as a starting point for better work.

Successes:

• URLs
• UUIDs (although I don't know what these are used for)
• Blink form
• post data (form, url-encoded, etc)
• UUIDs (although I don't know what these are used for)

Unfinished:

• It ignores nested or sequential/appended Table of Contents (TOC) and associated data.
• I found some fields but I don't know what they are ("weird ASCII", "bonus_field")

I added a file to tools_and_utilities indicating that this is more of a user-contributed code sample, than robust source code.

[a-teammate]

okay, i didnt look too much, so this might be totally unrelated.
I saw the following gist and thought it might be of relevance. Mostly because the code in ccl_chromium_snss2.py looks similar to what they have there.
Parse urls and titles from chrome browser sessions which they say is used in https://github.com/manucabral/pybrinf

since i didnt see this related project mentioned, i drop it here, might be totally irrelevant, sorry in that case