Chromium

Issue looks similar to b/40854724

Sorry, but no. This bug is a feature request for allowing bookmarks export on Android.

Can there please be a status update on this feature request?

It would also be great if it were possible to export SELECTED local Android Chrome bookmark folders.

This ability would be very useful when you need to only export the newer bookmarks that were created after the export of all local Android Chrome bookmarks.

Let's say that, some time ago, you exported all of your local Android Chrome bookmark folders and imported them into a third-party system.

But now you've also got one newer, unexported local Android Chrome bookmark folder that originates from all the tabs of a Android Chrome browsing session being mass-bookmarked.

Exporting all of your bookmarks again just for this one new folder would certainly clog the third-party system with numerous duplicate bookmarks upon import.

Therefore, it would be very practical to have the ability to only export this one newer local Android Chrome bookmark folder.

Can there please be an update on this feature request?

Working with files on Android is so clunky, it seems like usage of such a feature would be extremely very low. I don't see any fundamental reason why we couldn't support this, presumably call into the same conversion mechanisms that desktop uses, using HTML as well. Would we want to add a similar import mechanism as well? Probably?

kitezh47@, I don't really know what your use case is here. If you're just trying get access to the bookmark data in any format and your device is rooted, you could use adb and just grab the json file (/data/data/com.android.chrome/app_chrome/Default/Bookmarks). Or you could sync the data to desktop and use export to HTML there.

TBH, I don't ever see this feature request getting worked on. I would say you could send wylieb@ and myself patches to review. But since the recently (~1 year) bookmark UI work, we don't have a 3 dot menu in the bookmark toolbar anymore, it'd be hard to find a place to put a folder scoped bookmarks export. I don't even see a great way to add this without bloating the UI. Dunno.

Can there please be an update on this feature request?

No current plans to do this.

First of all, thank you for responding.

For what it's worth, here's my use case: I have ~143k bookmarks on my Android Chrome, and Android Chrome only supports syncing up to 100k bookmarks.

So I'm looking for a way to export these unsyncable bookmarks without rooting and risking bricking my phone.

I have been thinking about how to fit this into the bookmarks manager. The solution which stuck with me is to add share sheet support to selected bookmarks, which would solve for the "no 3-dot menu". The way to export everything would be to select all the root folders and share through that way. I think this is a viable approach, but I would need some cycles to understand how the share sheet works and prototype.

For what it's worth, here's my use case: I have ~143k bookmarks on my Android Chrome, and Android Chrome only supports syncing up to 100k bookmarks.

I completely understand the sentiment of wanting to get your data, I'm really curious kitezh47@ - how did you end up with so many bookmarks?

So I'm looking for a way to export these unsyncable bookmarks without rooting and risking bricking my phone.

One way to go about it is to figure out which 100k is synced, export them on desktop, then delete them and wait for sync to kick in. Diffing what's un/synced would be difficult.

I'm really curious kitezh47@ - how did you end up with so many bookmarks?

I often opened numerous tabs but lacked the time to read their entire contents, so I bookmarked those tabs for future reading and reference.

I'm really curious kitezh47@ - how did you end up with so many bookmarks?

Come to think of it, there are two additional, less obvious reasons:

Firstly, it's the fact that Android Chrome ceased support for viewing tabs in list mode. No list view means that finding even a relatively recently opened tab requires checking out several tab groups and, if the tab thumbnails within those tab groups offer no clue, going tab by tab. No list view means that very little of the tab title can be seen in TabSwitch.

Secondly, it's that Android Chrome doesn't support searching for open but unloaded tabs (relevant feature request: Can't search for open but unloaded tabs on Android Chrome ).

The lack of these two features makes it inconvenient to find a recently opened tab, thereby incentivizing the accumulation of tabs and eventually of bookmarks.

Here are several other users' feature requests lamenting the lack of list view:

1. Can't get list view in Android chrome tabs

2. A simple horizontal list is the only way to distinguish tab names

3. Provide a way to switch between viewing tabs as a list and as groups

4. Android Tab grouping forces me to curate tabs and I don't want to

5. Tab switcher shows little useful info, wasting space

6. Allow disabling tab grouping

Respectfully, kitezh47

+Fred, Calder, Hena for interesting list of tabs related feature requests from users.