http://rexim.me/firefox-bookmarks-to-org-mode.html

bookmarks-to-org.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Copyright (c) 2014 Alexey Kutepov a.k.a. rexim

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import codecs
import locale
import sys
import json

sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdout)

def export_bookmarks(bookmarks, fp):
    # The inner recursive function which does the main work
    def export_bookmarks_impl(bookmarks, level):
        # Output the node according to its type and the current level
        if bookmarks['type'] == 'text/x-moz-place-container':
            fp.write('%s %s\n' % ('*' * level, bookmarks['title']))
        elif bookmarks['type'] == 'text/x-moz-place':
            fp.write('%s - [[%s][%s]]\n' % (' ' * (level - 1),
                                            bookmarks['uri'],
                                            bookmarks['title']))

        if bookmarks.has_key('children'):
            # Due to the nature of org-mode format, it is important to
            # export not folder nodes first. So they are guaranteed to
            # be children of the current node.
            for child in bookmarks['children']:
                if child['type'] == 'text/x-moz-place':
                    export_bookmarks_impl(child, level + 1)

            for child in bookmarks['children']:
                if child['type'] == 'text/x-moz-place-container':
                    export_bookmarks_impl(child, level + 1)

    # Starting the traversal from level 1
    export_bookmarks_impl(bookmarks, 1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Reading JSON from stdin
    bookmarks = json.load(sys.stdin)

    # Writing org-mode to stdout
    export_bookmarks(bookmarks, sys.stdout)

How do you use the script? I'm trying "python bookmarks-to-org.py bookmarks.html" without quotes, with no result.

@gluesniffmonkey, Hello! Sorry for the late response. GitHub Gist doesn't notify me about any comments here for some reason...

I haven't used this script for a while, so I'm not even sure if it's still relevant for the latest version of Firefox. But you still can give it a try.

First of all, it works only with bookmarks that are exported from Firefox in JSON format. Not HTML as in your example. Second, this scripts reads bookmarks from the stdin and outputs org-mode document to the stdout. That means you have to do some basic shell redirection magic. Basically, I use this script like this:

$ cat bookmarks.json | python bookmarks-to-org.py > bookmarks.org

Hope it will help.

Thanks!

This should work too:

$ python bookmarks-to-org.py < bookmarks.json > bookmarks.org

Thanks Rexim, worked as a charm. 👍 :)