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How do I share an individual Google Chrome Bookmarks folder with someone else?

I have a folder full of articles I wish to send to someone one, without opening them up individually and sending each one.

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    Export your Bookmarks as HTML using Chrome's built-in exporter, open the HTML file and remove anything you don't want them to have and tell them to import it.
    – MonkeyZeus
    Commented Jan 5, 2015 at 15:42
  • Heads up folks, it looks like the share feature in bookmark manager is gone as of the moment. I relied on it pretty regularly, so editing your html file might be the best method for the time being.
    – user524828
    Commented Nov 21, 2015 at 23:38

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You could use a third-party browser extension that adds this functionality to the browser, such as Bookmark Llama. This would allow you to selectively share bookmarks without importing and exporting them whenever they change.

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    – Toto
    Commented Mar 24, 2022 at 17:14
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Two options (easiest first):

  1. You can use the new Bookmark Manager extension, which replaces the built in one. You can then go to the folder you want to share (via the extension), and click Share this folder at the top right of the page

  2. You can use the default bookmark manager and export bookmarks to html and manually remove the bookmarks that aren't in the folder you want to share.

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    I think google removed 'Share this folder' button in the latest version.
    – Lukas Ignatavičius
    Commented Oct 18, 2016 at 8:19
  • Hmmm that's annoying :( I'll see if I can find anything new but maybe the manual method is the only way forward atm...
    – ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
    Commented Oct 19, 2016 at 7:04
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    I don't think the Bookmark Manager has the Share this Folder option anymore (at least I could not find it)
    – Steve Campbell
    Commented May 4, 2017 at 21:03
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    The Share option is gone, but at least the Bookmark Manager extension still has the export option (unlike the built in one). So #2 still works
    – Dijkgraaf
    Commented Jun 29, 2017 at 23:14
  • I could not see the export feature anymore... is it gone?
    – Arninja
    Commented Apr 4, 2018 at 7:25
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It's dead simple to share a folder of Chrome bookmarks. Open Chrome's standard bookmark manager, open the specific folder or sub-folder whose contents you want to share, then in the right-hand pane just copy the icons of the web pages. Then paste into an email (this action will yield a list of URLs, not icons) and send.

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  • this does not work if there is a hierarchy of folders and bookmark
    – kenchew
    Commented Aug 26, 2020 at 2:09
  • although helpful, this isn't really "sharing" in the sense that they can't see the latest.
    – Brian C
    Commented Nov 26, 2020 at 1:13
  • And it doesn't allow importing easily either.
    – Vadorequest
    Commented Oct 17, 2021 at 7:51
  • (It doesn't work on edge)
    – JinSnow
    Commented Jun 3, 2022 at 8:42
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I used Export Selective Bookmarks extension, which does only that. (and doesn't ask for funky permissions)

Note that upon first use, it might display "can't fetch bookmarks" but it will eventually succeed given a bit of time. (as stated in the reviews)

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  • Works like a charm! Thanks, man!
    – Eugene Maysyuk
    Commented Dec 4, 2021 at 11:55

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