Downloads every revision of your Xmarks bookmarks and saves them in a git repository.

xmarks2git.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import argparse
import getpass
import json
import re
import requests
import subprocess

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--username', required=True)
parser.add_argument('--password')
args = parser.parse_args()

username = args.username
password = args.password

if password is None:
    password = getpass.getpass()

login_url = 'https://login.xmarks.com/login/login'
r = requests.get(login_url, data=dict(username=username, password=password))
r.raise_for_status()

token = re.search('<input type="hidden" name="token" value="([^"]*)" />', r.text).group(1)

r = requests.post(login_url, data=dict(username=username, password=password, token=token))
r.raise_for_status()

session_cookie = r.cookies['XMARKS']

print("Getting list of revisions from Xmarks...")

revisions_url = 'https://my.xmarks.com/bookmarks/syncd_get_revisions'
headers = { 'content-type': 'application/json' }
r = requests.post(revisions_url, cookies=dict(XMARKS=session_cookie), data=json.dumps({}), headers=headers)
r.raise_for_status()

response = r.text
revision_hashes = response.split('[')[1].split(']')[0]
revisions = json.loads('[{0}]'.format(revision_hashes))

try:
    process = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'log', '--max-count=1', '--format=%B'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
    out, err = process.communicate()
    last_revision = int(out)
except ValueError:
    last_revision = 0

revisions = filter(lambda revision: int(revision['revision']) > last_revision, revisions)
revisions = sorted(revisions, key=lambda revision: revision['revision'])

if not revisions:
    print("No new revisions since last sync.")
    raise SystemExit

print("Latest local revision: {0}".format(last_revision))
print("Latest remote revision: {0}".format(revisions[-1]['revision']))

for revision in revisions:
    for attempt in range(3):
        try:
            print("Backup {0} downloading".format(revision['revision']))

            bookmarks_url = 'https://my.xmarks.com/bookmarks/view/{0}/bookmarks.html'.format(revision['revision'])
            r = requests.get(bookmarks_url, cookies=dict(XMARKS=session_cookie))
            r.raise_for_status()

            if '<H1>Bookmarks</H1>' not in r.text:
                raise Exception('Backup appears to be corrupted!')

            break
        except Exception as e:
            if attempt == 3:
                raise e

    with open('bookmarks.html', 'wb') as f:
        f.write(r.text.encode('utf-8'))

    subprocess.call(['git', 'add', 'bookmarks.html'])
    subprocess.call(['git', 'commit', '--message={0}'.format(revision['revision'])])

    print("Backup {0} downloaded".format(revision['revision']))