Getting safari history from phone

Question

I'm creating a custom browser application.
apart from the sites visited from my browser, i'd like to show the history of the sites visited from safari browser as well. From my application, can I get the history of the web sites visited from safari browser on iphone or ipod or ipad?

Answer 1

Simply put NO, you can't access the Safari History. Apps are sandboxed.

If this is for an in-house app, then you could jailbreak the phones and go around the sandboxing like so -

We can find the history.plist in /var/mobile/Media/Safari/ and this we can read in jailbreaken iPhone.

Update:

see this SO link: How to access iPhone Safari History in an App?

Answer 2

Simply put, you cannot. The history is stored in a property list outside of your applications sandbox and you cannot access it.

On the jailbroken side, there is a History.plist located at /private/var/mobile/Library/Safari