Importing Bookmarks from a Text File (to any browser/website)

Question

I have dozens of text files containing around 60 url's each, accumulated over years of browsing on multiple computers. I wish to import these into any browser, to allow me to then use cross-browser importing. My ultimate goal is to then import the bookmarks to somewhere like delicious, which will automatically tag the links, allowing me to sort each page by subject.

The closest I've managed to find is: Import bookmarks to firefox from txt file

However while this plugin imports from a text file, it has no correlation with Firefox's bookmarks, and only allows you to export back to csv/txt files.

I understand that the problem of importing from text files is that bookmarks need a Title, and so I wish to use a given pages existing title.

I've been unable to find any such tool on the net.

Answer 1

Linkman can do this. First, import the URLs using the "any file" option (just looks for URLs) then run the "Retrieve missing names from web pages" in the Bookmarks menu.

I have the paid version and I'm not sure if the free version has the import option I mentioned. I'd be happy to convert the text files and give you the resulting file that could be used to import into any browser's bookmarks.

Answer 2

Pretty clever answer here, that I'll modify a bit.

1. Open your text file of links, one per line in a browser.
2. Hit F12 and use javascript in the console to open each in a new window (you might have to override your pop-up blocker).

Array.prototype.forEach.call(document.body.outerText.split("\n"), function (a) { window.open(a) });

3. Add all tabs as bookmarks.
4. Profit.

Worked in Chrome. I think that's give or take what you want, right?

Answer 3

created a bash script that does this: https://github.com/harshvchawla/convert-links-to-bookmarks

a link.com when converted to format <DT><A href="link.com">Title</A> is importable so the script does that

Answer 4

Make a big file with one url per line, then copy the url list and then paste it in the bookmark window. Done.

The only downside is the bookmark names will be the urls and not the actual page titles.