Urgent: Request to recover/export Pocket saved data
Hello Mozilla Support,
I’m contacting you regarding the Pocket shutdown and the status of my saved items.
My account contains over 10 years of saved articles and bookmarks that are highly important to me. I’m concerned that I may lose access to this entire archive due to the shutdown/deletion process.
Could you please confirm:
1.. Whether my Pocket data is still available for export or recovery
2. If there is any official method to download my full archive (saved links, tags, and collections)
3. Whether account data is already in a deletion pipeline, and if so, whether recovery is still possible
4. If there is any paid or manual recovery option available, I am willing to use it.
This archive is extremely important, and I would appreciate any guidance as soon as possible.
Thank you for your help.
All Replies (4)
Hi,
Pocket shutdown was announced on May 22, 2025 and officially shut down on November 12, 2025. This date was an extension from the original shutdown of October 8, 2025, to give everyone more time to export their data.
As part of the shutdown, all saved data was removed, and the export tool has been retired, so it’s no longer possible to access, retrieve, or export any saved Pocket content.
Regrettably there is no way to recover this data. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
They're has to be some work around or some possible method to at least recover some of those back right? I mean nothing is ever permanently deleted right? it wasn’t any secret or encrypted sensitive information that was stored.
I dunno I'm just hoping...
Hi Josh — sorry you're in this situation. JC-Support is right that Mozilla's export tool is gone and server-side recovery isn't available anymore.
A few places people sometimes still find *something* (no guarantees):
1. **Old export email** — search inbox/spam for "Pocket" / "export" from 2025; the CSV download link expired after 48h but the email may list URLs. 2. **Local copies** — old phone/tablet with Pocket app still installed (airplane mode), Firefox profile backup, or Time Machine / File History on your PC. 3. **Partial exports** — even a CSV/HTML export with URLs only is better than nothing; you can rebuild a read-later library from links.
If you find *any* Pocket HTML export file, this walkthrough shows how to import those saved links into a new read-later app: https://pauseread.com/import-pocket?utm_source=operator&utm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=traffic-test-2026-06
Worth also opening a ticket at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/pocket — staff may confirm account status, even if recovery isn't possible.
Hope you recover at least part of the archive.
holodnsk said
Worth also opening a ticket at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/pocket — staff may confirm account status, even if recovery isn't possible. Hope you recover at least part of the archive.
Pocket has shut down - What you need to know https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket November 12, 2025 Export mode on Pocket Web closed All deletion of accounts and user data began
That ticket link no longer works.
You must log in to your account to reply to posts. Please start a new question, if you do not have an account yet.