macOS How to read specific key value from plist file

[saqibjaan]

Here is the History.plist of Safari browser. I want to read only 2 specific values from this plist file. (www.yahoo.com AND lastVisitedDate).
How can I do it ? Kindly help.

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>WebHistoryDates</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key></key>
<string>http://www.yahoo.com/</string>
<key>D</key>
<array>
<integer>1</integer>
</array>
<key>lastVisitedDate</key>
<string>368300984.8</string>
<key>title</key>
<string>Yahoo!</string>
<key>visitCount</key>
<integer>1</integer>
</dict>

 

[chown33]

PLIST_BUDDY="/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy"
THE_PLIST="$HOME/Library/Safari/History.plist"

"$PLIST_BUDDY" -c "print :WebHistoryDates:0" "$THE_PLIST" \
 | awk '($1 == "=")  { url = $2 }
  /lastVisitedDate/ { print $3, url }'

You may need to revise it, depending on your OS version.

Also see this thread for more info.

 

[saqibjaan]

Can you please tell me how to do this in Objective-C ?

Kindly help me.

 

[chown33]

Read the Property List Programming Guide.

See the section titled "Serializing a Property List", and the link to the NSPropertyListSerialization class.