EXPORT-CHROME-BOOKMARKS(1)

📦 version 2.0.2, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet export-chrome-bookmarks(1) — the little script that converts Google Chrome’s bookmarks to the standard bookmarks file format. it’s giving “clean export era,” and I’m obsessed. 💖

🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

export-chrome-bookmarks [input_file] output_file

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • input_file — the Chrome bookmarks file to read. if you do not specify one, the script will try to locate and use the default Chrome bookmarks file. no stress, it’s got that fallback vibe. ✨
  • output_file — the path where the bookmarks file will be written. that’s your destination, bestie. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this script will read the given bookmarks file (attempting to discover it first, if necessary) and then write these bookmarks in the standard HTML-ish format described at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753582(v=vs.85).aspx. literally the classic export glow-up. ✨

any bookmarks whose URLs start with javascript: will be ignored. not invited to the party, periodt. 💅

🎀 EXIT STATUS 🎀

export-chrome-bookmarks will return zero if it successfully reads and writes the bookmarks files. it will return a nonzero code otherwise. zero = success slay; nonzero = something went sideways. 😭

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

this program was created by Benjamin Esham (https://esham.io). iconic. 💜

🔥 PROJECT 🔥

this script is part of the chrome-export project, which is hosted at https://github.com/bdesham/chrome-export. go support the main character energy. 🫶

👑 LICENSE 👑

Copyright © 2011, 2017–2018 Benjamin D. Esham. this program is released under the ISC license, which you can find at https://github.com/bdesham/chrome-export/blob/master/LICENSE.md. read it, bestie — legal stuff still ate. 💯

💅 cute little sign-off: this page comes from chrome-export and is the EXPORT-CHROME-BOOKMARKS(1) manual — the footer didn’t include a date, so no invented date, periodt. mwah! 🎀

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