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A simple python script that unifies bookmark files exported from chrome and firefox. Useful for old backups but pretty useless in the cloud age. It uses BeautifulSoup (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/) for html parsing and jinja2 (http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/) for templating. Tested with python 2.7.3 on ubuntu 64bit 12.04 LTS. The c…
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beq.py
#!/usr/bin/python
# create the union of a set of mozilla bookmarks files
# usage: ./beq.py bookmarks-20110501.html bookmarks-20120101.html > bookmarks.html
#
# license: the code is in the public domain
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from jinja2 import Template
import sys
if len(sys.argv[1:]) == 0:
print("usage: ./beq.py bookmarks-20110501.html bookmarks-20120101.html > bookmarks.html")
sys.exit(0)
bookmarks = {}
for fname in sys.argv[1:]:
text = unicode(open(fname, 'r').read(), 'utf-8')
soup = BeautifulSoup(text)
urls = soup.find_all('a', recursive = True)
for url in urls:
bookmarks[url['href']] = url.string
template = Template(u"""<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<title>Bookmarks</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Bookmarks</h1>
{% for key, value in hrefs.iteritems() %}
<a href="{{key | escape}}">{{value | escape}}</a><br>
{% endfor %}
</body>
</html>
""")
s = template.render({ 'hrefs': bookmarks})
sys.stdout.write(s.encode('utf-8'))
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