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DEPRECATED (see my bookmarks_from_sql.py gist): A small Python utility to parse bookmarks exports from Firefox
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| """ | |
| DEPRECATED: see my bookmarks_from_sql.py gist. | |
| A short script to parse bookmark exports from Firefox so they can be | |
| manipulated with Python. | |
| Author: Ian Fisher (iafisher@protonmail.com) | |
| Version: November 2018 | |
| """ | |
| from collections import namedtuple | |
| from html.parser import HTMLParser | |
| Bookmark = namedtuple( | |
| 'Bookmark', ['title', 'url', 'add_date', 'last_modified', 'section'] | |
| ) | |
| class BookmarkParser(HTMLParser): | |
| """An incremental parser is less convenient to use than a DOM parser, but | |
| the standard library doesn't offer a DOM parser for HTML, and unfortunately | |
| Firefox's export format is not valid XML, so here we are. | |
| """ | |
| EXPECTING_NOTHING = 0 | |
| EXPECTING_HEADER = 1 | |
| EXPECTING_BOOKMARK = 2 | |
| def __init__(self): | |
| super().__init__() | |
| self.current_section = None | |
| self.mode = self.EXPECTING_NOTHING | |
| self.bookmarks = [] | |
| self.current_bookmark = None | |
| def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): | |
| if tag == 'a': | |
| self.mode = self.EXPECTING_BOOKMARK | |
| self.current_bookmark = Bookmark( | |
| title='', | |
| url=get_attr(attrs, 'href'), | |
| last_modified=int(get_attr(attrs, 'last_modified')), | |
| add_date=int(get_attr(attrs, 'add_date')), | |
| section=self.current_section, | |
| ) | |
| elif tag == 'h3': | |
| self.mode = self.EXPECTING_HEADER | |
| else: | |
| self.mode = self.EXPECTING_NOTHING | |
| def handle_data(self, data): | |
| if self.mode == self.EXPECTING_HEADER: | |
| self.current_section = data | |
| elif self.mode == self.EXPECTING_BOOKMARK: | |
| self.current_bookmark = self.current_bookmark._replace(title=data) | |
| self.bookmarks.append(self.current_bookmark) | |
| self.mode = self.EXPECTING_NOTHING | |
| def get_attr(attrs, key): | |
| for akey, aval in attrs: | |
| if akey == key: | |
| return aval | |
| raise KeyError(key) | |
| parser = BookmarkParser() | |
| with open('bookmarks.html') as f: | |
| parser.feed(f.read()) | |
| # Bookmark objects are available as `parser.bookmarks` |
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