Move Microsoft EDGE collections to raindrop / csv

README.md

Move Microsoft edge collections to services like Raindrop (that can accept csv)

Get the sqlite db file

1. You can find the db file in the following places

• Windows: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Collections
• MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft Edge/Default/Collections
• Linux: TBD

2. Copy the files (esp. collectionsSQLite) to a seperate Folder.

Execute the script

1. Install python 3.10 and then setup pandas via pip pip install pandas
2. save collections_to_csv.py to the same folder with the db files from the previous step.
3. Exec the script python collections_to_csv.py

Then you can simply import the file normally to raindrop.

collections_to_csv.py

import json
import sqlite3
import pandas as pd

con = sqlite3.connect("./collectionsSQLite")
cur = con.cursor()

df = pd.read_sql_query(
  """
    SELECT i.title as title, c.title as folder, i.source as data, i.date_created as created
    FROM collections as c, items as i, collections_items_relationship as r
    WHERE r.item_id == i.id and r.parent_id == c.id
  """,
  con
)

def blob_to_json(col):
  my_json = col.decode('utf8')
  d = json.loads(my_json)
  return d["url"]

df["description"] = ""
df["tags"] = ""
df["created"] = df["created"].astype(int)
df["url"] = df["data"].apply(blob_to_json)

df.to_csv(
  "out.csv",
  index=False,
  columns=["url", "folder", "title", "description", "tags", "created"]
)

If you polished this up a bit and did a Medium article or something I bet you you'd get a ton of views man.

Jesus, THANK YOU.

Microsoft is so frustrating sometimes.