On 8/20/18, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > Lee wrote on 20/08/2018 3:59 AM: >> On 8/19/18, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Paul Bergsagel wrote on 19/08/2018 12:18 PM: >>>> Richard Owlett wrote: >>>>> My bookmarks have grown like Topsy I have many duplicates and >>>>> the tree structure is a mess. I have two primary goals: 1. find >>>>> and purge duplicates. 2. move folders around to create a more >>>>> reasonable structure. >>>>> >>>>> After trying several approaches and looking for useful tools I >>>>> found jq [https://stedolan.github.io/jq/]. One related page I >>>>> found is titled "jq is sed for JSON". >>>>> >>>>> An outline of a possible procedure might be: 1. Export >>>>> SeaMonkey bookmarks in JSON format. 2. use jq to pretty print >>>>> the JSON. It does so nicely. 3. Find duplicate targets and >>>>> delete all but one. 4. Each leaf of the bookmark tree is an >>>>> object. Move these objects around to create a more friendly >>>>> tree. 5. Import the clean organized bookmarks. >>>>> >>>>> Has anyone done this? Is there a friendly in depth jq tutorial? >>>>> The ones I've found tend to be on the "Hello world" level. >>>>> There is just enough to tantalize. >>>>> >>>>> Links of interest include: >>>>> https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/v1.5/ >>>>> http://stedolan.github.io/jq/tutorial/ >>>>> https://robots.thoughtbot.com/jq-is-sed-for-json >>>>> >>>> I have a limited understanding of programming and do not consider >>>> myself a programmer at all. Here is my question: "Would it be >>>> possible to create a plug in that would sort and locate duplicate >>>> bookmarks from within SeaMonkey rather than having to export the >>>> bookmarks and use an outside program? Isn't there a way to >>>> automate advanced bookmark management using a plug in?" >> >> Most probably someone could write an addon to do that. But aside >> from needing someone to actually write it, Firefox is real close to >> dropping support for ESR 52.x - which means all the old addons will >> no longer work in any supported version of FF. > > <Snip> > >> open the bookmarks manager and select Tools / Export HTML > > Yeap, did the exporting and ended with a bunch of gobble-de-gook!!
If you open the file with notepad.. yeah, it does look pretty horrible. If you use something like notepad++ that automatically deals with dos/unix line endings it looks much better :) Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
