extract-x-bookmarks

Written by ChatGPT, not me.

Works fine.

Requirements

• Python
• Dependencies in requirements.txt

Usage

• Create a virtual environment if you want (uv venv .venv or whatever), then activate it. (This is absolutely optional).

• Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Now, to get the Cloudflare cookies, this is quickest way I use:

  • Download the Cookie-Editor extension.
  • Open your browser and go to Twitter.
  • Open the Cookie-Editor extension, press the export button (bottom right) and export as Header String. (It will copy it to the clipboard).
  • Open the terminal, and run (the python file):

  python isolate_cookies.py
  

  • Paste the clipboard content.
  • It will then put the two needed cookies into creds.txt, which the script will use.
    • If you want to do that without installing the extension, the creds.txt file will have the following format:

    auth_token=blablabla;ct0=blablabla
    

• A few things to know before running the script:

  • It will create a bookmarks.txt file with the URLs of your bookmarks.
  • The script fetches about 90 bookmarks per run. That means you might want to continually run it until you have no cookies left.
    • A run writes (appends, really) URLs in a descending order (newest first).
  • It might ask you whether to prepend or append the URLs - whether a new run should add URLs to the start or end of the file. Generally, for a linear timeline, you want to append, so: a.
  • It will take some time in the end to unbookmark the fetched bookmarks. Each time 10 new bookmarks are unbookmarked, it will print a message.

• Run the script until you have all your bookmarks extracted:

python main.py

License

Licensed under the MIT License.