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Export your Chrome search engines to JSON.
"""chrome_se_export.py
Export your Chrome search engines to JSON.
"""
import os.path
import sqlite3
import re
import json
import click
@click.command()
@click.option(
'--path',
default='~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Web Data',
help="Path to Chrome's 'Web Data' Folder")
@click.option(
'--outfile',
default='se_from_chrome.json',
help="Output file")
def export(path, outfile):
path = os.path.expanduser(path)
conn = sqlite3.connect(path)
with conn:
try:
keywords = conn.execute('''select * from keywords''')
except sqlite3.OperationalError:
print("Is Chrome running? Must be closed to work.\n")
raise
search_engines = [{'name': kw[1], 'keyword': kw[2], 'url': kw[4]}
for kw in keywords if re.search(r'{searchTerms}', kw[4])]
output = json.dumps(search_engines, sort_keys=True, indent=4,
separators=(',', ': '))
with open(outfile, 'w') as w:
w.write(output)
if __name__ == "__main__":
export()
@procopaeus
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Does this still work today? I tried tweaking what I could, but I'm a newbie...

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n8henrie commented Feb 3, 2023

@procopaeus still seems to work.

$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ ./.venv/bin/python -m pip install click
$ ./.venv/bin/python chrome_se_export.py --path ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Web\ Data --outfile foo.txt
$ cat foo.txt

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This seems to work OK for Windows Chrome from WSL with something like python3 ~/v/chrome_se_export.py --path "/mnt/c/Users/$MyUser/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/$MyProfile/Web Data"

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