Merging BookmarksBecause Mozilla still doesn't support roaming profiles I've ended up with a couple of machines all having wildly different bookmark collections.
Needless to say this is a bad thing, and makes me very irritated on a regular basis.
So I spent 30 minutes yesterday writing a little Perl script to merge multiple Netscape/Mozilla bookmark collections together.
It's a complete hack, but it works in a sufficiently roundabout way that I'm fairly proud of it!
I thought it would be trivial to parse the bookmarks from one `bookmarks.html` file into a tree structure, then parse a second file; walking down the tree to spot nodes or leaves in common and adding them to a third tree - which could then be written out to disk.
But when I actually came to code it I realised that I could cheat as I already had written a program to convert between Internet Explorer Favourites and bookmark files a few years ago. (See if you can spot where this is going!)
So .. my new script simple reads in each bookmark file, converts it to IE favourite files in a temporary directory, (not caring if the files already exist; which handles duplicate subtrees or entries), then after that converts the collection of .url files back into a bookmark file.
Roundabout .. but kinda cool
I'll tidy it up and stick it online later today if I get the chance..