bookmarkdown

Parse your browser's exported HTML bookmark file to Markdown.

Supported browsers: Brave.

Installation

pip install bookmarkdown

Usage

CLI

# Convert "bookmarks.html" to markdown and output to STDOUT
btm bookmarks.html

# Convert "bookmarks.html" to markdown and write to "bookmarks.md"
btm --output=bookmarks.md bookmarks.html

# Alternatively
btm bookmarks.html > bookmarks.md

Python

The BookmarkHTMLParser is an instance of the Python standard library's HTMLParser and thus supports all its methods.

from bookmarkdown import btm

parser = btm.BookmarkHTMLParser()
parser.feed(html_content)

# Access the data
parser.data

FAQ

Concerns

• Minimal dependencies. bookmarkdown is likely to be installed on the system level Python to make use of the btm script.
• Correctness. No one likes to lose a bookmark nor a different ordering.

Future ideas

The current application solves my needs pretty well, but there are additional applications I can think of. Such as merging multiple bookmark files.

Add functionality to the CLI and Python codebase to support the following:

# Merge bookmark html-file into existing markdown file.
btm --merge=[md-file] [html-file]

btm [html-file]  # already implemented

# Read the `-r` as "reverse", i.e. instead of bookmark to markdown it
# becomes markdown to bookmark.
btm -r [md-file]

btm -r --merge=[md-file] [html-file]

Project structure

The project structure was automatically set up using cookiecutter and my Python template: cutter-py.