Scripts to convert Google Chrome’s bookmarks and history to the standard HTML-ish bookmarks file format.
The functionality to do this for bookmarks is already built into Chrome (select Bookmarks → Bookmarks Manager, then click “Organize” and select “Export Bookmarks…”). I wrote this script to be able to perform this conversion in a cron script.
These scripts require Python, either version 2.7.x or else version 3.2 or later. They should work on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
The usage is
python py-chrome-bookmarks.py [input_file] output_file
If you do not specify an input file, the script will try to open the default Chrome bookmarks file.
The script will ignore URLs that start with “javascript:”.
The usage is
python py-chrome-history.py [input_file] output_file
If you do not specify an input file, the script will try to open the default Chrome history file.
The script will ignore history entries with empty titles.
To test changes to the scripts, run the shell script test/run_tests. The script runs the bookmarks and history scripts and verifies that their output is identical to what is expected.
- 1.2.1 (2017-06-02)
- Fixed a Unicode decoding error under Windows 7. (Thanks Boburmirzo Hamraqulov!)
- 1.2 (2017-01-26)
- Added support for Python 3, dropped support for Python 2.6 and earlier, and made this all clear in the readme.
- Giving an input filename is now optional for both scripts. If you omit the input filename then the scripts will try to open Chrome’s bookmarks or history file automatically.
- The history script now makes a copy of the input file before opening it. Previously, it was necessary either to make a copy yourself or to quit Chrome before running the script. (The history file is a SQLite database and it isn’t possible for two programs to have it open at the same time.)
- 1.1 (2011-04-06)
- Added help and version text (and started counting versions).
- Added some checking for errors while opening the input or output files.
- 1.0
- Initial release
These programs were created by Benjamin Esham.
This project is hosted on GitHub. Please feel free to submit pull requests.
Copyright © 2011, 2017 Benjamin D. Esham. This program is released under the ISC license, which you can find in the file LICENSE.md.