Library and tools for parsing and exporting Chrome bookmarks.
Written against Chromium main@{2022-08-28} (Chrome 106). Should work at least as far back as 2014 (Chrome 40).
Usage: crb [options] bookmarks_file
Options:
-E, --export stringArray export bookmarks HTML to the specified file (- for stdout)
-h, --help show this help text
-q, --quiet don't write info about the bookmarks file to stderr
-t, --tree write the bookmarks tree to stdout (use --verbose to show dates)
-v, --verbose show additional information
Usage: crb-carve [options] file[:[start_offset][:[end_offset]|+length]]...
Options:
-h, --help show this help text
-j, --json show information about the recovered files as JSON
-o, --output string write the recovered files to the specified directory
-O, --output-format string output file format (default "bookmarks.{input.basename}-{match.offset}.{bookmarks.checksum}.json")
-q, --quiet don't show information about the recovered files
Output Fields (--output-format, --json):
input.path input file path
input.basename input file basename
match.offset match offset
match.length match length
bookmarks.barguid chrome bookmarks bar folder guid
bookmarks.checksum chrome bookmarks checksum
bookmarks.date.unix most recent date (unix timestamp)
bookmarks.date.unixmicro most recent date (unix microscond timestamp)
bookmarks.date.yyyymmdd most recent data (yyyymmdd)
bookmarks.count.folders number of folders
bookmarks.count.urls number of bookmarks
output output file basename (not for --output-format)