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Export Bookmarks from the AOSP Web Brower in Android

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This article is 2 fold. It firstly tells you how to export your bookmarks from the AOSP browser in Android and then how to import them into Firefox. The other browsers such as Google Chome or Mozilla Firefox have a sync feature built into them and there are also apps to extract the links from these. But this article is for extracting the Bookmarks from the AOSP browser only. Once you have done this you should consider using the inbuilt sync features of the Chrome or Firefox browser.

Below are different methods based on the 2 Apps that I have used on how to export from android AOSP browser to importing them into firefox.

Bookmark Sort & Backup

This is my prefered option because of the nicely formed html file that can be imported straight into FireFox.

Download here

now on its description it says

  • '*** DOES NOT WORK ON NEWER DEVICES USING CHROME AS WEB BROWSER ***'
  • 'Warning: on Android 3 & 4, do not use this application if the Google Chrome bookmark synchronization is activated.'

From reading this means it willl not work on later version of android where the browser is chrome, not AOSP. it's second waring is about not using it if the syncronization was activated. well i had just installed the chrome browser and activated the sync, but i had no links in it and the backup happened fine. i would recommend uninstalling this after runnig the backup. It probably messes with the sync if you try and add things or alter them possibly.

  • when run, the app then loads the links and you can see how many there are. you can also access the backup withou performing any other function.
  • default location for backup export /storage/sdcard0/BookmarkSB  , this can be changed
  • bookmarks SB exports the bookmarks in an HTML file with all the hyperlinks working using the page title as the link name

Instructions

  1. Install Bookmark Sort & Backup on the Android phone
  2. Open the app and export links to the default location (no changes required for this)
  3. Copy the newly created backup file to your PC however you want
  4. Now select an option from below to import the files into your FireFox browser

Get Files into Firefox on your Browser

Now you have the file on your PC you have 2 options to import the links to Firefox because of the useful format it has been exported in.

Option 1

This is my prefered option because of the nicely formed html file that can be imported straight into FireFox.

  1. Make sure the root of your Firefox Bookmarks is empty of individual bookmarks, folders are fine. (This is the Bookmarks Menu)
  2. Create new folder in Firefox for the import, call it 'My Android Mobile Phone Links'
  3. Import directly into firefox via the 'Bookmarks / Show All Aookmarks'/Import Bookmarks from HTML'
  4. All files will be importe to the root of your FF bookmarks, so move these new links to the new folder

Option 2

  1. install a multilink opening plugin for Firefox (Snap Links Plus)
  2. Open the backup html file from Bookmark Sort & Backup in firefox (Drag and Drop)
  3. Select all links and open them
  4. Right click on the tabs and select 'Bookmark All' saving them into a new folder

Option 3

  • Use an online URL emulator and open all of the URLs in the browser
  • when all of the URLs are open, right click and slect 'Bookmark All'

Optional

To keep things clean you can delete the Bookmarks on your phone using Super Backup and use 'Remove Bookmarks' option

Super Backup : SMS & Contacts

Download here

  • This has an excellent feature to delete all bookmarks on the phone. This appears to only wipe the AOSP bookmarks, but possibly wipes Chrome, Firefox etc... but this needs checking.

  • This backed up the bookmarks to an xml file, i need to see if it did them all. ie local and those at google via the AOSP browser (AOSP browesr is not chrome and is the one with the blue world icon)
  • It does seem to do both local and the google ones but only supports folders in their format
  • The backup can be put wherever you want but defaults to the internal SD Card in the follwoing location. It should be noted that you can swap the SD Card or device it is saved in and unless you change it it will use the same relative location on that drive.
  • The XML that is created is in a proprietary format but the links are clear along with the other information if you wanted to perform any operation on them.

Instructions

  1. Install Super Backup : SMS & Contacts
  2. Backup the Bookmarks with Super Backup. This exports them in to an xml file format (proprietary format, located here....) on the SDCard
  3. Copy the backup XML file to your Windows PC however you want
  4. Scrape the bookmarks.xml to extract and convert all URLs to links and place them in a new HTML file. This can be done by some on tools or a simple PHP script
  5. Open the new html file in firefox
  6. Install a multilink selector plugin to Firefox
  7. Open the .html file you have just created
  8. Highlight and open all of the links that are displayed in your browser
  9. When all of the bookmarks have been opened use the 'bookmark all links' to folder option

Optional

To keep things clean you can delete the Bookmarks on your phone using Super Backup and use 'Remove Bookmarks' option

Links

Extract Domains Links

These might get moved to their own article

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