How to download a copy of all your bookmarks

download-bookmarks.md

Limitations

This is for a Unix shell (because of for, cut, wget, etc) and for Firefox (because FF exports bookmarks as JSON, where each entry has a uri property). YMMV.

Preparation

1. Make sure you have wget installed
2. Install jq
3. Export all your bookmarks (or a subset) as a JSON file:
   Ctrl+Shift+O → Import and Backup → Backup…
   (say you save it as /tmp/bookmarks.json)

Script

for i in `cat /tmp/bookmarks.json | jq '[.. | .uri? | select(.) ]' | cut -d '"' -f 2`; do
    wget -r -l 1 $i
done

This will create directories for each domain, under the current dir.
Pass larger integers to wget param -l if you want to dig deeper into each URL.

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Thanks to jq recipes