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How do I sort Firefox bookmarks alphabetically by manipulating the 'json' or 'places.sqlite' files via the terminal?

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1065 / 2 Years ago, tue, june 21, 2022, 2:16:39

is there a way possible with terminal pipelining to sort the bookmarks Mozilla Firefoxstores in alphabetical order?

I tried dabbing a little but to my disappointment ,the bookmarks are stored in JSON format ,how do you extract things from that ?

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answered 2 Years ago variark · Accepted Answer

If you state what your final goal is, you will get better answers. You can get a somewhat clean list of sorted URLs from a JSON file with something like:

sed 's/,/

/g' bookmarks-2012-07-07.json | grep '"uri"' | grep http | cut -d '"' -f 4 | sort

Your most powerful option is to utilize sqlite3 to get the bookmarks from the file places.sqlite from your home directory.