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Importing Bookmarks

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Currently importing bookmarks requires some technical knowledge and might not be very straightforward for non-technical users. Don't hesitate to ask questions in github discussions or discord though.

Import from Chrome​

  • Open Chrome and go to chrome://bookmarks
  • Click on the three dots on the top right corner and choose Export bookmarks
  • This will download an html file with all of your bookmarks.
  • To extract the links from this html file, you can run this simple bash one liner (if on windows, you might need to use WSL): cat <file_path> | grep HREF | sed 's/.*HREF="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/' > all_links.txt.
  • This will create a file all_links.txt with all of your bookmarks one per line.
  • To import them, we'll use the hoarder cli. You'll need a Hoarder API key for that.

Run the following command to import all the links from all_links.txt:

cat all_links.txt | xargs -I{} hoarder --api-key <key> --server-addr <addr> bookmarks add --link {}

Import from other platforms​

If you can get your bookmarks in a text file with one link per line, you can use the following command to import them using the hoarder cli:

cat all_links.txt | xargs -I{} hoarder --api-key <key> --server-addr <addr> bookmarks add --link {}