Reading Chrome Bookmarks using Python Module chrome_bookmarks
Posted by Sriram Sanka on April 24, 2023
Chrome Browser Bookmark file is in JSON format whereas history file is a database format. One can read the data file using SQLite(DB Browser) to get the URL and downloads data.
In this post I am using chrome-bookmarks module to read the bookmarks and print the URL along with it Name and Folder Information.
Install chrome-bookmarks module using pip
pip install chrome-bookmarks
Now you can read the URL from Python as below.
import chrome_bookmarks
for url in chrome_bookmarks.urls:
print(url.url)
We Can also print the URL Description/Name as below.
import chrome_bookmarks
for url in chrome_bookmarks.urls:
print(url.url, url.name)
import chrome_bookmarks
for folder in chrome_bookmarks.folders:
print(folder.name)
print(folder.folders)
It is also possible to read the JSON without using the above module.
import json
file ="C:\\Users\\Dell\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default\\Bookmarks"
with open(file, "r", encoding='utf-8') as bookmarks:
bookmark_data = json.load(bookmarks)
print(json.dumps(bookmark_data, indent=1))
{
"checksum": "7b7d115080ddda0dcab6b428f64aa3a5",
"roots": {
"bookmark_bar": {
"children": [
{
"date_added": "13326789370504643",
"date_last_used": "0",
"guid": "5c3e2329-1d0c-4a9d-b85e-426d6fd31301",
"id": "62",
"meta_info": {
"power_bookmark_meta": ""
},
"name": "Oracle | Cloud Applications and Cloud Platform",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/"
},
{
"date_added": "13326789428536219",
"date_last_used": "0",
"guid": "0a972887-7f34-41b3-bf59-1f2f2f521a0e",
"id": "63",
"meta_info": {
"power_bookmark_meta": ""
},
"name": "Oracle Database Features",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://apex.oracle.com/database-features/"
},
{
"date_added": "13326789439984046",
"date_last_used": "0",
"guid": "25e1d231-a825-46fd-a8a9-829bf07dc5bf",
"id": "64",
"meta_info": {
"power_bookmark_meta": ""
},
"name": "Cloud Sign In",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/cloud/sign-in.html?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fcloud.oracle.com%2F"
},
{
"date_added": "13326789456087992",
"date_last_used": "0",
"guid": "a0e39859-9596-47be-bc61-d6099f152fb1",
"id": "65",
"meta_info": {
"power_bookmark_meta": ""
},
"name": "Oracle Blogs",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://blogs.oracle.com/"
},
{
"children": [
{
"date_added": "13326789491584887",
"date_last_used": "0",
"guid": "b6f90dec-e303-4a2b-bb53-a7357c8d694f",
"id": "67",
"meta_info": {
"power_bookmark_meta": ""
},
"name": "Oracle | Cloud Applications and Cloud Platform",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/"
},
{
"date_added": "13326789491585797",
"date_last_used": "0",
"guid": "ffeea96a-87d7-4053-b674-7ac9cfb50a13",
"id": "68",
"meta_info": {
"power_bookmark_meta": ""
},
"name": "Oracle Database Features",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://apex.oracle.com/database-features/"
},
{
"children": [
{
"date_added": "13326789491586570",
"date_last_used": "0",
"guid": "851ce296-3918-47ab-981a-21fcab632edc",
"id": "70",
"meta_info": {
"power_bookmark_meta": ""
},
"name": "Oracle Blogs",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://blogs.oracle.com/"
},
{
"date_added": "13326789491586243",
"date_last_used": "0",
"guid": "5b21937d-66d9-4eea-9491-7d7c2e22152b",
"id": "69",
"meta_info": {
"power_bookmark_meta": ""
},
"name": "Cloud Sign In",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/cloud/sign-in.html?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fcloud.oracle.com%2F"
}
],
"date_added": "13326789519632624",
"date_last_used": "0",
"date_modified": "13326789527363048",
"guid": "9b0bbece-a9fd-4678-a846-896b7a2a54ec",
"id": "71",
"name": "Oracle_Child",
"type": "folder"
}
],
"date_added": "13326789485096843",
"date_last_used": "0",
"date_modified": "13326789519632800",
"guid": "ea6663fa-05df-4751-b25b-125561aed88d",
"id": "66",
"name": "Oracle",
"type": "folder"
}
],
"date_added": "13326774450786953",
"date_last_used": "0",
"date_modified": "13326789491586570",
"guid": "0bc5d13f-2cba-5d74-951f-3f233fe6c908",
"id": "1",
"name": "Bookmarks bar",
"type": "folder"
},
"other": {
"children": [],
"date_added": "13326774450786955",
"date_last_used": "0",
"date_modified": "0",
"guid": "82b081ec-3dd3-529c-8475-ab6c344590dd",
"id": "2",
"name": "Other bookmarks",
"type": "folder"
},
"synced": {
"children": [],
"date_added": "13326774450786957",
"date_last_used": "0",
"date_modified": "0",
"guid": "4cf2e351-0e85-532b-bb37-df045d8f8d0f",
"id": "3",
"name": "Mobile bookmarks",
"type": "folder"
}
},
"version": 1
}
Hope you like it. ! Happy learning.
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