On 12/31/2017 11:59 AM, Lee wrote: > 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 >
Or python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#module-json.tool $ cat bookmarks-2017-12-31.json | python -m json.tool > pretty.json $ gedit pretty.json { "charset": "UTF-8", "dateAdded": 1291676484000000, "guid": "E2VyXb4tHph4", "iconuri": "https://www.seamonkey-project.org/images/seamonkey16.png";, "id": 26, "index": 3, "lastModified": 1251830510000000, "title": "The SeaMonkey\u00ae Project", "type": "text/x-moz-place", "typeCode": 1, "uri": "http://www.seamonkey-project.org/"; }, _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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