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Console Script to Scrounge Title and URLs from a Firefox Session History File
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| /* Open old session history file in a tab, open the web console, paste all of this, press Enter to execute. | |
| If popup is blocked, allow popups then try again. */ | |
| function scrub(t){t=t.replace(/&/g,'&'); t=t.replace(/>/g,'>'); t=t.replace(/</g,'<'); return t;} | |
| if (window.confirm('Scrounge session URLs?')) var newwin=window.open(); | |
| if (newwin){ | |
| newwin.document.write('<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html><head><title>URLs Scrounged from Session History</title><meta http-equiv=\'Content-Type\' content=\'text/html; charset=UTF-8\'><style>.urllist>p{margin-left:2.25em}.urllist>p:nth-of-type(1){margin-left:0}</style></head>\n'); | |
| newwin.document.write('<body><h1>URLs Scrounged from Session History</h1>\n'); | |
| var out=new Array(); | |
| var sess=document.body.textContent.split('"_closedWindows":['); | |
| console.log(sess.length); | |
| for (var n=0; n < sess.length; n++){ | |
| if(n==1) out.push('<h1>Closed Windows</h1>'); | |
| else out.push('<h1>Windows</h1>'); | |
| var winds = sess[n].split('{"tabs":['); | |
| for (var i=1; i < winds.length; i++) { | |
| if (n==1) out.push('<h2 style=\'border-bottom:1px solid #000\'>Closed Window ' + i + '</h2><div style=\'margin-left:2.25em\'>'); | |
| else out.push('<h2 style=\'border-bottom:1px solid #000\'>Window ' + i + '</h2><div style=\'margin-left:2.25em\'>'); | |
| var wtabs = winds[i].split('"_closedTabs":['); | |
| for (var m=0; m < wtabs.length; m++){ | |
| var tabs = wtabs[m].split('{"entries":['); | |
| for (var j=1; j < tabs.length; j++) { | |
| if (m==1 && j==1) out.push('<div style=\'margin-left:2.25em\'><h3>(Closed Tabs)</h3>'); | |
| out.push('<h3>Tab ' + j + '</h3>\n<div class=\'urllist\'>'); | |
| var strTemp = tabs[j].split(',"children":[')[0]; // ignore children | |
| var taburls = strTemp.split('{"url":"'); | |
| for (var k=taburls.length - 1; k >= 1; k--) { | |
| var strURL = taburls[k].substr(0, taburls[k].indexOf('","')); | |
| var strTitle = taburls[k].split('"title":"')[1] || '[Title Not Available]'; | |
| strTitle = strTitle.substr(0, strTitle.indexOf('","')); | |
| if (strTitle.length == 0) strTitle = '[Title Not Available]'; | |
| if (k == taburls.length - 2) out.push('<p>← Back <em>(earlier pages visited in this tab)</em>:</p>'); | |
| out.push('<p><strong>' + scrub(strTitle) + '</strong><br><a href=\'' + strURL + '\' target=\'_blank\'>' + scrub(strURL) + '</a></p>'); | |
| } | |
| out.push('</div>'); | |
| } | |
| out.push('</div>'); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| newwin.document.write(out.join('\n')); | |
| newwin.document.write('\n</body>\n</html>'); | |
| newwin.document.close(); | |
| } |
P.S. The h3 tag is the one used to indicate a folder name. Perhaps if you find/replace that to a different tag such as p then Firefox will not bother will all the folders? You might want to find/replace the h1 to h3 as an outer container.
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Hi, the structure of the list generated by this script is quite different from an importable "bookmarks.html" file. I think you could generate a bookmarks.html file by combining code from two projects over here: