Exporting URLs from Safari's Reading List via Ruby

export-urls-from-safari-reading-list.rb

# Copy ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist to ./Bookmarks.plist via Finder
# plutil -convert xml1 -o ./Bookmarks.xml ./Bookmarks.plist
# export-urls-from-safari-reading-list.rb > safari-reading-list.csv

require "bundler/inline"
 gemfile do
   source "https://rubygems.org"
   # https://github.com/patsplat/plist
   gem "plist"
 end

 require "csv"

csv_string = CSV.generate do |csv|
  csv << ["title", "url", "created_at"]
  plist = Plist.parse_xml("Bookmarks.xml")
  plist.dig("Children")[3].dig("Children").each do |e|
    title = e.dig("ReadingList", "PreviewText")
    url = e.dig("URLString")
    created_at = e.dig("ReadingList", "DateAdded")
    csv << [title, url, created_at]
  end
end

puts csv_string