/bookmarks-manager

Tool for transforming bookmarks into the various formats.

Primary LanguageJava

Bookmarks Manager

This tool allows to transform bookmarks export files into various formats.
Currently delicious bookmarks htm format and Firefox 3.6+ json format is implemented.

Importing Delicious Bookmarks into Firefox

Export Delicious Bookmarks

  • Go to http://delicious.com
  • Settings → Export / Backup Bookmarks
  • Make sure to export tags and descriptions
  • Save the file somewhere you find it later again

Export Firefox Bookmarks (do it even if you currently have none)

  • Open firefox bookmarks manager (CRTL + SHIFT + o)
  • Import and Backup → Backup …
  • Save the file in the same folder as the delicous file

Download and run delicious2firefox.jar

  • Download the jar file from here: delicious2firefox.jar
  • Save it to the same place as the bookmark files
  • Open a command promt
    • For windows users: Start → run → enter “cmd” → press enter
  • Navigate to the folder you saved the files
    • For windows users: Enter “cd [path to folder]” into the command promt and hit return
      Example: “cd C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Besitzer\Eigene Dateien\Downloads”
  • Run delicious2firefox.jar
    • Enter “java -jar [delicious bookmarks filename] [firefox bookmarks filename] [some new name]”
      Example: “java -jar delicious-20110407.htm bookmarks-2011-04-07.json new.json”

Import the New File into Firefox

  • Open firefox bookmarks manager again
  • Import and Backup → Restore → choose file …
  • Choose the newly created file

Voila, you are finished!
All your delicious bookmarks are imported to firefox including all tags.