On 12/31/17, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/30/2017 07:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 12/29/2017 10:27 PM, null wrote:
>>
>>> The OP's problem is organizing the contents of his bookmarks file,
>>> which is an sqlite file unamenable to manual editing.
>>>
>>
>> I had in mind an end run around that problem.
>> SeaMonkey has two modes of dealing with sets of bookmarks:
>> 1. Save/Restore which uses JSON
>> 2. Export/Import HTML
>> The "Export" function resembles a lossy conversion of the JSON.
>> It does not _appear_ to preserve nesting information. I'll have
>> to run more tests to confirm. My initial test flopped as I've not
>> read the relevant Help contents.
>>
>> I had in mind:
>> 1. Save the bookmarks.
>> 2. Pretty print the JSON to a file.
>> 3. Edit the "pretty file" - awkward but doable.
>> 4. "Uglify" {if required} to have syntactically correct JSON.
>> 5. Replace the current set of bookmarks using "Restore" function.
>>
>
> Other people have worked on related tools.
> Searching planet.mozilla.org and mozillazine.org has been productive.
> In fact the second article on planet.mozilla.org {Templating JSON/YAML
> with json-e} suggests some aspects of json-e would be applicable to my
> problem.
>
> I am also searching Debian repositories. Packages related to "aeson"
> appear promising.
have you come across 'jq' yet? eg: to prettyprint json:
$ jq . bookmarks-2017-12-31.json |more
{
"guid": "root________",
"title": "",
"index": 0,
"dateAdded": 1496405759960000,
"lastModified": 1514747427222000,
"id": 1,
"type": "text/x-moz-place-container",
"root": "placesRoot",
"children": [
{
"guid": "menu________",
"title": "Bookmarks Menu",
<.. snip ..>
which looks like a pain to manually edit.
What was your initial test with export as html? I've done export as
html, edit the file, delete all bookmarks, import the edited html &
not noticed any problems. What did you see?
Regards
Lee
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