Export Toby

export-toby.js

// code courtesy of Toby team

chrome.storage.local.get("state", o => (
((f, t) => {
let e = document.createElement("a");
e.setAttribute("href", `data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,${encodeURIComponent(t)}`);
e.setAttribute("download", f);
e.click();
})(`TobyBackup${Date.now()}.json`, o.state)
));

Great piece of code, thanks a lot!

Is there an easy way to get a list of just the URLs?

http://url1.com
http://url2.com
http://url3.com
http://url4.com
http://url5.com
http://url6.com
http://url7.com
...
http://urln.com

@dwiehoff: To get a flat list of all the URL's in a JSON export, you can use a command-line tool like jq:

jq '.lists[].cards[].url' your_backup_file_name.json

You could also solve this in the Javascript code probably, but this got the job done for me.

(please note: not tested on any other version besides the JSON export I just created myself)

For more info on jq, see also:
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/jq-is-sed-for-json

For a simplified (and readable) JSON export, you can use this:

chrome.storage.local.get("state", ({ state }) => {
  const lists = JSON.parse(state).lists.map(({title, cards}) => ({
    title,
    cards: cards.map(({ customTitle, title, url }) => ({
      title: customTitle || title,
      url,
    })),
  }));

  let e = document.createElement("a");
  e.setAttribute("href", `data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,${encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(lists, null, 2))}`);
  e.setAttribute("download", `TobyBackup${Date.now()}.json`);
  e.click();
});

And for a human readable export to a text file (in markdown format), you can use this:

chrome.storage.local.get("state", ({ state }) => {
  const markdown = `
# Toby Export
${JSON.parse(state).lists.map(({title, cards}) => `## ${title}
${cards.map(({ customTitle, title, url }) => `- [${customTitle || title}](${url})`).join('\n')}`).join('\n\n')}`;
  let e = document.createElement("a");
  e.setAttribute("href", `data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,${encodeURIComponent(markdown)}`);
  e.setAttribute("download", `TobyBackup${Date.now()}.md`);
  e.click();
});

You can then open the .md file in any text editor, or copy+paste the export into a Markdown editor such as https://dillinger.io/ to get clickable links.

@jesstelford Fantastic, thank you!

Great piece of code, thanks a lot!

Is there an easy way to get a list of just the URLs?

http://url1.com
http://url2.com
http://url3.com
http://url4.com
http://url5.com
http://url6.com
http://url7.com
...
http://urln.com

@dwiehoff: To get a flat list of all the URL's in a JSON export, you can use a command-line tool like jq:

jq '.lists[].cards[].url' your_backup_file_name.json

You could also solve this in the Javascript code probably, but this got the job done for me.

(please note: not tested on any other version besides the JSON export I just created myself)

For more info on jq, see also:
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/jq-is-sed-for-json

@pietervanw Any thoughts on how to grab the URLs of a specific list by the title?

@nickmadedesign:
with jq, try this:
jq '.lists[] | select(.title == "Name of the List") | .cards[].url' your_backup_file.json

To list all your lists, do this:
jq '.lists[].title' your_backup_file.json

Again, this can also be solved in JavaScript but if you like having a full backup and extracting your relevant data from that, then this would work.

@nickmadedesign:
with jq, try this:
jq '.lists[] | select(.title == "Name of the List") | .cards[].url' your_backup_file.json

To list all your lists, do this:
jq '.lists[].title' your_backup_file.json

Again, this can also be solved in JavaScript but if you like having a full backup and extracting your relevant data from that, then this would work.

Ah, right. Perfect. Thank you!

I am counting that this thread is still visited by people who can help me. I was careless and have not created my account with Toby, so all of my saved URLs are on my local files system, created under the account name defined by my local logon to Chrome browser.

Yesterday, I had to logout from Chrome - and I forgot to check which account was used to create Toby list of URL. So getting back to use my Toby collections - I got this:

The screenshot indicates how I was perceived as a guest (of Toby), so I tried all of my Chrome accounts, to get to see my two pages worth of bookmarks, to no avail. Is there a way to get my painfully collected urls?

Is there a way to do the inverse? take an export (in JSON for example) and inject it to Toby's local storage

put into chrome console and keep getting:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘local’ of undefined at :1:16

Thanks for this. Do you guys know how to import the exported collection to say a new account?

chrome.storage.local.get("state", o => (
((f, t) => {
let e = document.createElement("a");
e.setAttribute("href", 'data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,${encodeURIComponent(t)}');
e.setAttribute("download", f);
e.click();
})('TobyBackup${Date.now()}.json', o.state)
));
VM44:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'local' of undefined
at :1:16

dummy me it got resolved when i ran it in toby page ^^^

put into chrome console and keep getting:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘local’ of undefined at :1:16

u gotta open Toby tab, ctrl shift J, copy paste the command, then it will prompt n download ur saved URL