Have you tried any of JSON parsers?
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Eben King<eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Eben King wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Shawn J. Goff wrote:
>
> [bookmarks.js]
>
>>> That is JSON, a form of Javascript object literal. You could pull out
>>> everything with "http..." to get all the urls.
>>
>> Yeah, there's over 3000 of them. It includes each tab's history. I
>> thought of parsing the file programmatically enough to extract them that
>> way.
>>
>>> There is also a "Bookmark All Tabs" function under the bookmarks menu.
>>> This will create a bookmark folder with all your open pages in there.
>>
>> Good, I'll see if that works. It might require that the tabs be loaded
>> before it bookmarks them, which puts me back where I started. Wait, does
>> that only apply to the tabs in that window? I suspect it does.
>
> It does. It doesn't wait for loading to complete, but it only bookmarks
> those tabs which are loaded fully.
>
> I think I see how the file's structured:
>
> ({
> windows:
> [(
> tabs:
> [(
> entries:
> [(
> url: "http://whatever"
> title: "Whatever"
> ...
> )]
> )]
> )]
> })
>
> Extra spaces and linefeeds added for clarity. Whitespace is generally
> ignored by compilers. And I still don't know how to make a computer parse
> it enough to extract each tab's URL. Maybe a two-RE sed command or several
> of them as part of a big one-liner?
>
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