Cool Way to Export Chrome Bookmarks (medium to advanced users) (15 pics beware) - GoFuckYourself.com

fris · 12-18-2012, 12:09 PM

I noticed with Google Chrome, the only way to export your bookmarks is into an ugly formatted .html file.

like so.

I ended up parsing this with sed like so

Code:

sed '/<DT><A\|<DT><H3/!d;s/<DT>//;/Bookmarks bar/d;s/ ADD_DATE=\".*\"//g;s/^[ \t]*//;s/<A HREF/<a href/;s/[<H3|<A]/\L&/g' bookmarks.html

Then I realized Google Chrome stores its data as a SqlLite Database, so You can parse it easily, here are the screenshots of me doing it so you can replicate it.

Im using the desktop app navicat which lets you connect to different types of databases.

Hope this helps someone ;)

woj · 12-18-2012, 12:24 PM

kinda cool, but come on, if the process requires 15 steps and $500 software to do something as simple as "export bookmarks" = FAIL

I'll stick to regexping the html export...

fris · 12-18-2012, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woj

kinda cool, but come on, if the process requires 15 steps and $500 software to do something as simple as "export bookmarks" = FAIL

I'll stick to regexping the html export...

ya i know ;) i was just doing it as a test ;)

Killswitch · 12-18-2012, 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woj

kinda cool, but come on, if the process requires 15 steps and $500 software to do something as simple as "export bookmarks" = FAIL

I'll stick to regexping the html export...

Bingo.

Rebel D · 12-18-2012, 01:40 PM

Your ICQ broken again??

Spunky · 12-18-2012, 02:01 PM

This coding stuff makes my brain hurt

12-18-2012, 12:09 PM	#1
fris Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 55,359	Cool Way to Export Chrome Bookmarks (medium to advanced users) (15 pics beware) I noticed with Google Chrome, the only way to export your bookmarks is into an ugly formatted .html file. like so. I ended up parsing this with sed like so Code: sed '/<DT><A\\|<DT><H3/!d;s/<DT>//;/Bookmarks bar/d;s/ ADD_DATE=\".\"//g;s/^[ \t]//;s/<A HREF/<a href/;s/[<H3\|<A]/\L&/g' bookmarks.html Then I realized Google Chrome stores its data as a SqlLite Database, so You can parse it easily, here are the screenshots of me doing it so you can replicate it. Im using the desktop app navicat which lets you connect to different types of databases. Hope this helps someone ;) __________________ Since 1999: 69 Adult Industry awards for Best Hosting Company and professional excellence. WP Stuff

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