Markio

A Ruby Gem for parsing Netscape Bookmark File Format

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'markio'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install markio

Usage

Parsing bookmarks file

bookmarks = Markio::parse(File.open('/path/to/bookmarks.html'))
bookmarks.each do |b|
  b.title           # String
  b.href            # String with bookmark URL
  b.folders         # Array of strings - folders (tags)
  b.add_date        # DateTime
  b.last_visit      # DateTime
  b.last_modified   # DateTime
end

Building bookmarks file

builder = Markio::Builder.new
builder.bookmarks << Bookmark.create({
  :title => "Google",
  :href => "http://google.com"
})
file_contents = builder.build_string
File.open('/path/to/bookmarks.html', 'w') { |f| f.write file_contents }

TODO

  • Builder output to file
  • Builder should not ignore bookmark folders

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request