bookmarks - Export browser bookmarks as plain text.

SYNOPSIS

$ bookmarks [-hVda] [-f format] [file ...]

-h, --help      help
-V, --version   version
-d              debug
-a              all files : process arguments and default locations
-f format       any combination of letters t,u,d as title/url/description (default : tud)
-s              find schemeless URLs in text files (default : no)

DESCRIPTION

bookmarks is a tool to export bookmarks from files supplied as arguments, or from browsers default locations (when called without arguments). The following sources are supported :

• Safari (Mac)
• Firefox (Mac/Linux/Windows)
• Chrome (Mac/Linux/Windows)
• Internet Explorer (Windows)
• Plain text (.txt)
• Markdown (.md)

Files named *.plist, *.sqlite and *Bookmarks are processed as Safari, Firefox and Chrome bookmarks, respectively. Directories named *Favorites are processed as Internet Explorer favorites.

The fields <title>, <url> and <description> are retrieved (when existing) and are available for exporting (in the desired format), by default : <title> <url> <description>

The <description> field is filled with Safari's Description, Firefox's Tags or empty for Chrome and Internet Explorer.

SEARCH BOOKMARKS INTERACTIVELY FROM CLI

This tool can be used to search and open bookmarks interactively from the CLI. The following instructions are for macOS, but it should be similar on any regular OS.

Install the wonderful fzf (available in Homebrew), URI::Find (CPAN), App::uricolor (CPAN), and add these aliases to your shell :

Open link(s) with default application :

alias lk="bookmarks | uricolor | fzf --ansi --exact --multi | urifind | xargs open"

Copy link(s) to clipboard :

alias lkc="bookmarks | uricolor | fzf --ansi --exact --multi | urifind | pbcopy"

• uricolor colorizes URIs to distinguish them from title and description.
• fzf is a fuzzy finder (with many options) : use TAB for multiple selection, press ENTER to confirm, or ESC to cancel.
• urifind extracts all URIs. Try uricolor -s and urifind --schemeless to find schemeless URLs.
• Selected URIs will open with your default browser or application.
• Since open uses macOS Launch Services to determine which program to run, most common schemes such as ftp:// or ssh:// are automatically recognized.

CHECK LINKS STATUS

These examples use the tool http_status provided by HTTP::SimpleLinkChecker (CPAN).

Check links and show status :

bookmarks -f u | xargs http_status

Show only broken links (parallel) :

bookmarks -f u | xargs -n10 -P16 http_status 2>/dev/null | perl -ne 'print if not /200$/'

INSTALLATION

To install this module automatically from CPAN :

cpan App::bookmarks

To install this module automatically from Git repository :

cpanm https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks.git

To install this module manually, run the following commands :

perl Makefile.PL
make     
make test
make install

PREREQUISITES

DBI, Config::Any, Config::Tiny (optional, for IE only), Win32 (optional)

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command :

perldoc bookmarks

You can also look for information at :

• CPAN

  https://metacpan.org/release/App-bookmarks

• GITHUB

  https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 2019 by jul.

This is free software, licensed under:

The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)