Hi

Have you tried the backup tool? This exports the data as a JSON that you might find easier to work with.

Thanks, tried html and json formats now. AI is giving wrong code and nothing is working. Think I'll work on some other channels for the conversion code, until Firefox has some easier way to edit bookmarks.

Code examples:

$  cat bookmarks_edit.tsv 

jq -r '

 # Recursive walk that carries the folder path as an array
 def walk(path):
   . as $node |
   if $node.type == "folder" then
     ($node.name // "Unnamed") as $fname |
     ($node.children // [])[] | walk(path + [$fname])
   elif $node.type == "bookmark" then
     "\($node.url)\t\($node.title)\t\(path|join(\"/\"))"
   else empty end;
 .folders[] | walk([])

' bookmarks-2025-10-11.json > bookmarks_edit.tsv

HTML to Python: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

with open('bookmarks.html', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:

   soup = BeautifulSoup(f, 'html.parser')

for link in soup.find_all('a'):

   print(f"{link.text} | {link.get('href')}")

JSON to Python import json

with open("bookmarks.json", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:

   data = json.load(f)

def extract_bookmarks(node):

   if node.get('type') == 'text/x-moz-place':
       print(f"{node.get('title', )} | {node.get('uri', )}")
   for child in node.get('children', []):
       extract_bookmarks(child)

extract_bookmarks(data['roots']['bookmark_bar']) extract_bookmarks(data['roots']['other_bookmarks']) extract_bookmarks(data['roots']['toolbar'])

This is a little out of our remit here. You might want to ask the experts at https://stackoverflow.com/questions for help with this.