Chrome Bookmark Exporter

A Python script that extracts bookmarks from Chrome/Firefox HTML exports, specifically focusing on links saved in the "2024" folder. The script processes the bookmarks and exports them to a CSV file with useful metadata.

Features

• Extracts bookmarks from Chrome/Firefox HTML exports
• Focuses on links within the "2024" folder
• Calculates relative ages (e.g., "2 months ago")
• Extracts main domain names from URLs
• Sorts by date (newest first)
• Exports to CSV format

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• pandas
• beautifulsoup4

Usage

1. Export your bookmarks from Chrome/Firefox to an HTML file
2. Name the file bookmarks_12_3_24.html (or update the filename in the script)
3. Run:

python parse_bookmarks.py

Output Format

The script generates a bookmarks_export.csv with the following columns:

• title: The bookmark title
• link: Full URL
• site: Main domain name
• date: Date added (YYYY-MM-DD)
• age: Relative time since adding (e.g., "2 months ago")

How It Works

1. Parses the HTML bookmarks file using BeautifulSoup
2. Locates the "2024" folder
3. Extracts bookmark metadata including dates and URLs
4. Processes timestamps into human-readable formats
5. Exports the data to CSV

Example Output

title,link,site,date,age
"Example Article",https://example.com/article,example.com,2024-03-01,2 months ago

For the Hacker News export in hn_favorites.py

1. This is a simple copy paste of the table bodies on the HN Favorites page
2. It's very clunky and meant to be one time instead of doing it correctly.
3. Since the link works with a url parameter for the userID and a page parameter I could make it easier to work with but am happy for now.

License

MIT