Shaarli Option to import bookmark folders as tags

There is no standard way of export tags in Netscape's bookmarks file format. When exporting from Google Bookmarks, folders are used as tags. The following example shows a bookmark that was tagged with History and Programming:

<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
<H1>Bookmarks</H1>
<DL><p>
  <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1258826211990949">History</H3>
  <DL><p>
    <DT><A HREF="http://dotnetmasters.com/historyofcfamily.htm" ADD_DATE="1260914469588170">History of the C family of languages</A>
  </DL><p>
  <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1238826211990949">Programming</H3>
  <DL><p>
    <DT><A HREF="http://dotnetmasters.com/historyofcfamily.htm" ADD_DATE="1260914469588170">History of the C family of languages</A>
  </DL><p>
</DL><p>

In order to support imports from Google Bookmarks (and other services which use folders during the export), I added an option to the import form which uses the folders as tags. For bookmarks with multiple tags the overwrite options needs to be enabled as well. Additionally, the timestamp needs to be adjusted from microseconds to normal unix seconds during the import.

import

The result of a successful import has the right tags for all imported links:

result

Apr 21 '13 02:04 levjj

I have the same feature available in my proposal of importing files from firefox JSON export. So, when the pull request will be accepted, I'll enable this feature for JSON import also.

Apr 21 '13 17:04 sijnak

@sijnak That's great! Having a JSON import makes it a lot easier for people to move to Shaarli from Firefox, etc.

Apr 21 '13 21:04 levjj

@levjj Great option ! How can I benefit from it ? I would like to import my GBookmarks into shaarli, but the loss of the tags is what prevents me to switch. However I am not at all a PHP developper....

Jun 26 '13 07:06 PatrickHonorez

@PatDeLux Until @sebsauvage merges this pull request, you could just clone [this branch](https://github.com/levjj/Shaarli/tree/import-folders-as-tags reposiroty) of Shaarli and import the Google Bookmarks HTML file (be sure to check the "overwrite existing links" option).

Jun 26 '13 09:06 levjj

@levjj : thanks for replying. Your link "this branch" returns me a 404 error...(sorry to bother you - this Github etc..is 100% new for me - I am mostly developing on SQL Server and VBA)

Jun 26 '13 19:06 PatrickHonorez

@PatDeLux Sorry, should have checked the link. Try this one instead.

Jun 26 '13 21:06 levjj

Christopher, Thanks for your work. I would like to point an issue: I have a lot of GBookmarks tagged "SQL Server", and they generate 2 tags in Shaarli: 1 for *SQL *and 1 for *Server *. So for me there is definitely a problem for tags containing a space ! Regards,

Patrick Honorez +352 691-67 68-65

On 26 June 2013 23:06, Christopher S. [email protected] wrote:

@PatDeLux https://github.com/PatDeLux Sorry, should have checked the link. Try this onehttps://github.com/levjj/Shaarli/tree/import-folders-as-tagsinstead.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli/pull/80#issuecomment-20080064 .

Jul 02 '13 20:07 PatrickHonorez

Yep, this is an open issue in Shaarli. See #22

Jul 03 '13 11:07 levjj

Thanks, I really needed that option.

Jul 07 '13 02:07 ghost

Priceless !

Aug 20 '13 10:08 silopolis

Shaarli (community fork) now uses a dedicated Netscape bookmark parser:

parser sources: https://github.com/shaarli/netscape-bookmark-parser
- release notes: https://github.com/shaarli/netscape-bookmark-parser/releases
addition to Shaarli (in progress): https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues/607

Aug 10 '16 08:08 virtualtam