As a result of the Omnivore app shutting down, lots of people will have exported files to process to import into other read-it-later and bookmarking apps. I chose Raindrop.io but there are other alternatives.
(originally posted here omnivore-app/omnivore#4461)
For anyone trying to process their Omnivore export into something more suitable for import into Raindrop.io, etc, Omnivore suggests using a jq
command to convert your files, but it doesn't work very well.
Once you've installed jq
, here's a command which creates a nice CSV out of your metadata_*.json
files from your Omnivore export, including extracting your tags and cleaning up any non-printable characters in your title and description fields:
jq -r '