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Importing Bookmarks

Hoarder supports importing bookmarks using the Netscape HTML Format, Pocket's new CSV format & Omnivore's JSONs. Titles, tags and addition date will be preserved during the import. An automatically created list will contain all the imported bookmarks.

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All the URLs in the bookmarks file will be added automatically, you will not be able to pick and choose which bookmarks to import!

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 import the bookmark file, go to the settings and click "Import Bookmarks from HTML file".

Import from Pocket​

  • Go to the Pocket export page and follow the instructions to export your bookmarks.
  • Pocket after a couple of minutes will mail you a zip file with all the bookmarks.
  • Unzip the file and you'll get a CSV file.
  • To import the bookmark file, go to the settings and click "Import Bookmarks from Pocket export".

Import from Omnivore​

  • Follow Omnivore's documentation to export your bookmarks.
  • This will give you a zip file with all your data.
  • The zip file contains a lot of JSONs in the format metadata_*.json. You can either import every JSON file manually, or merge the JSONs into a single JSON file and import that.
  • To merge the JSONs into a single JSON file, you can use the following command in the unzipped directory: jq -r '.[]' metadata_*.json | jq -s > omnivore.json and then import the omnivore.json file. You'll need to have the jq tool installed.

Import using the CLI​

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Importing bookmarks using the CLI 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.

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:

while IFS= read -r url; do
    hoarder --api-key "<KEY>" --server-addr "<SERVER_ADDR>" bookmarks add --link "$url"
done < all_links.txt