Some time ago, while cleaning stuff in my computer, I decided to switch my browser to Opera and delete the version of Firefox that I was using at the time. While doing that and removing all the Firefox folders that are left behind, I accidentally erased all my bookmarks and I didn’t had them synced with some on-line service. Well that wasn’t good, I had references stored there that I wanted to keep.
When trying to recover the file ‘places.sqlite’ I found an bookmark backup generated by Firefox. When I opened the file I found that it was a mess, basically it was bunch of big JSON objects stored in one line containing lots of garbage (I only needed the urls).
I kept that file until today, when I finally decided that I would put those bookmarks again in my browser. As Opera doesn’t import this kind of files, I made a little python script that extracts the names and urls of the backup and generates a single file that opera can import, while keeping the folder structure.
Well, it worked, so I tought it might be usefull to someone else and pushed it to github. If any of you ever have the same problem give it a shoot and use this “quick fix”. You can find it here with some instructions on how to use it. If you find any problem, use the comments and github issues.
