How to access Chrome's online bookmarks?

danijar picture danijar · Dec 29, 2013 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

Google Chrome allows you to sign in with your Google account to sync bookmarks and settings. Those bookmarks are then stored along with my account on their servers.

I want to create another client for the bookmarks. Please note that I am not interested in reading the local bookmarks file from hard disk. Instead I want to connect with the online servers directly.

So I need to access the same API as Chrome uses for synching. Is there a way to find out how to use that API?

Answer

DanH picture DanH · Sep 3, 2015

Whilst not using an API directly it allows you to query data from google bookmarks online (directly via REST call), and parse it yourself.

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/?output=xml&num=10000

I have included a link on how you may parse this data from the "Lite Bookmarks" chrome extension repository. http://www.google.com/bookmarks/?output=xml&num=10000