Export your Chrome search engines to JSON.

chrome_se_export.py

"""chrome_se_export.py
Export your Chrome search engines to JSON.
"""

import os.path
import sqlite3
import re
import json
import click


@click.command()
@click.option(
    '--path',
    default='~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Web Data',
    help="Path to Chrome's 'Web Data' Folder")
@click.option(
    '--outfile',
    default='se_from_chrome.json',
    help="Output file")
def export(path, outfile):
    path = os.path.expanduser(path)

    conn = sqlite3.connect(path)
    with conn:
        try:
            keywords = conn.execute('''select * from keywords''')
        except sqlite3.OperationalError:
            print("Is Chrome running? Must be closed to work.\n")
            raise

    search_engines = [{'name': kw[1], 'keyword': kw[2], 'url': kw[4]}
                      for kw in keywords if re.search(r'{searchTerms}', kw[4])]

    output = json.dumps(search_engines, sort_keys=True, indent=4,
                        separators=(',', ': '))

    with open(outfile, 'w') as w:
        w.write(output)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    export()
    

Does this still work today? I tried tweaking what I could, but I'm a newbie...

@procopaeus still seems to work.

$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ ./.venv/bin/python -m pip install click
$ ./.venv/bin/python chrome_se_export.py --path ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Web\ Data --outfile foo.txt
$ cat foo.txt

This seems to work OK for Windows Chrome from WSL with something like python3 ~/v/chrome_se_export.py --path "/mnt/c/Users/$MyUser/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/$MyProfile/Web Data"