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bookmarks browser for firefox (Python recipe) by Anton Vredegoor
ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579077/)

a small tkinter gui to browse the .json type bookmark files firefox automatically generates each day. It's meant to be run from a terminal. If a tree item is doubleclicked it prints the uri.

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import sys
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from Tkinter import *
sys.path.append(r'/usr/lib/python2.7/idlelib')
from TreeWidget import FileTreeItem, TreeNode, ScrolledCanvas

class MyFileTreeItem(FileTreeItem):

    def GetText(self):
            return self.path.get("title")

    def SetText(self, text):
        pass
        
    def GetSubList(self):
        return [MyFileTreeItem(name) for name in self.path['children']]
        
    def IsExpandable(self):
        """Return whether there are subitems."""
        return self.path.has_key('children')
 
    def IsEditable(self):
        pass
               
    def OnDoubleClick(self):
        if not self.IsExpandable():
            print self.path.get('uri','no uri available')

def main():
    parser = ArgumentParser(description = 'browse a bookmarks_xxx.json file')
    parser.add_argument('jbfile', 
        help='the json file containing the bookmarks')
    args = parser.parse_args()
    root = Tk()
    sys.exitfunc = root.quit
    root.configure(bd=0, bg="yellow")
    root.title("bookmarks browser")
    root.focus_set()
    sc = ScrolledCanvas(root, bg="white", highlightthickness=0, takefocus=1)
    sc.frame.pack(expand=1, fill="both")
    fn =args.jbfile
    D = eval(file(fn).read())
    D['title'] = fn
    item = MyFileTreeItem(D)
    node = TreeNode(sc.canvas, None, item)
    node.expand()
    root.mainloop()

if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

I removed firefox without checking that all my bookmarks were exported after using firefox' utily. Luckily there was another place where the bookmarks were stored, they were even in a format that could easily be read into a dictionary! Using some code that still exists in many python installs, but that has to be added to python's path to be used again, I managed to create a minimal gui. The script is only tested for debian.

To find the .json files the script uses as an argument, type "locate bookmarks | grep json".

Run the script like so: python bookmarks.py somefile.json.

Tags: bookmarks, firefox, gui, tkinter