export chrome bookmarks (blinks)

[bigbass]

blinks = bookmarks 2 links

This is a command line tool to automatically export
your google chrome bookmarks without using chrome


you just compile it and run it with no arguments needed

Notes: Google chrome stores your bookmarks in a JSON formatted file
in your home directory in a hidden folder

the program will read in the JSON file and convert it to HTML
automatically for you and cleans up the formatting removing timestamps

all original code and 100% bacon
no external libraries used
blinks-1.2.tar.gz (1015 B)

small update to use the tmp folder
I also ported this to 100% javascipt

experimental-coding.freeforums.net/post/678


UPDATED to include debian packages
deb-packages-binks-1.2.0.tar.gz (34.39 KB)
'---automatically converts google chrome JSON formatted bookmarks to cleaned html bookmarks in /tmp/Bookmarks.html
blinks_1.2.0_aarch64.deb
blinks_1.2.0_amd64.deb
blinks_1.2.0_i386.deb



rpi3 arm blinks_1.2.0_armhf.deb
armv7l.tar.gz (10.41 KB)

some usage tips
just type blinks in a terminal

then something like this works as a test
dillo /tmp/Bookmarks.html

or some other light browser great for document reading
chrome is very memory hungry


Joe

[bigbass]

Updated prior post
to also work to save javascript bookmarklets

blinks was written in pure bacon code


bookmarklets are very powerful
it is like making your own browser plugins
and store them as simple bookmarks

Bookmarklets 101
Regular bookmarks (aka favorites) are just locations to visit, like “http://gmail.com”.
Bookmarklets are javascript code that the browser runs on the current page,
and they’re marked by “javascript:” instead of “http://”.

When clicking a bookmarklet, imagine the page author wrote
#<script>bookmarklet code here</script> — it can do almost anything.

I cant show some examples because the forum blocks javascript
but I use many of them

[bigbass]

cross building turned out to be simple on debian with cmake
and the size is so good that it can be done all on a raspberry pi3 as the host with my sdcard!!

now we can convert our own bacon apps to debian packages

I wrote this app in bacon first
and a later time rewrote it in pure javascript


the 100% bacon version is below

'---automatically converts google chrome JSON formatted bookmarks to cleaned html bookmarks in /tmp/Bookmarks.html
blinks_1.2.0_aarch64.deb
blinks_1.2.0_amd64.deb
blinks_1.2.0_i386.deb

first post has the bac and deb packages