Transform bookmarks from a Firefox backup into an ORG document.

bookmarks-to-org.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import argparse
import json

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')


parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Transform bookmarks from a Firefox backup into an ORG document.')
parser.add_argument('--input', required=True)
parser.add_argument('--output', required=True)
args = parser.parse_args()


def get_file_contents(file_name):
    content = ""    
    with open(file_name) as f:
        lines = f.readlines()
        for line in lines:
            content += line
    return content
    

bookmarks_dict = {}
bookmarks_dict['untagged'] = []

bookmarks_root = json.loads(get_file_contents(args.input))
bookmarks_menu = bookmarks_root['children'][0]['children']

for bookmark in bookmarks_menu:
    if not 'children' in bookmark:
        if 'tags' in bookmark:
            tags = bookmark['tags']
            if tags in bookmarks_dict:
                bookmarks_dict[tags].append(bookmark)
            else:
                bookmarks_dict[tags] = [bookmark]
        else:
            bookmarks_dict['untagged'].append(bookmark)

f = open(args.output,'w')
for tag in bookmarks_dict.keys():
    f.write("\n\n* %s" % tag)
    for bookmark in bookmarks_dict[tag]:
        if 'title' in bookmark:
            f.write("\n- [[%s][%s]]" % (bookmark['uri'], bookmark['title']))
        else:
            pass
            # {u'index': 9, u'dateAdded': 1463211349164000, u'lastModified': 1463211349164000, u'guid': u'n7KHcAisXB2-', u'type': u'text/x-moz-place-separator', u'id': 653}
f.close()

LICENSE.txt

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