HOWTO import bookmarks from Wallabag

[rkraken]

After self hosting Wallabag for years, I'm switching to Hoarder. The modern UI and AI tagging features are great. In case it helps anyone, this is what I did to bring over my bookmarks from Wallabag.

First, create any desired custom AI tagging rules in Hoarder.

In Wallabag, export bookmarks as .json format.

Using json to html script from https://github.com/KillianKemps/wallabag-to-html, first install Ruby:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ruby-full

gem install sanitize

Download the script json_to_html_bookmarks.rb from the site. Then

ruby json_to_html_bookmarks.rb your_wallabag_export.json > exported_bookmarks.html

Theoretically you should be done here and be able to import this html file into Hoarder. But if you get an error like I did, continue on.

Extract links from the HTML file (from Hoarder docs):

cat exported_bookmarks.html | grep HREF | sed 's/.*HREF="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/' > all_links.txt

Create an api key from your hoarder user settings for this last step.

Import the links file to Hoarder. This command combines the docker based hoarder CLI and import command from Hoarder Docs:

cat all_links.txt | xargs -I{} docker run --rm --network host ghcr.io/hoarder-app/hoarder-cli:release --api-key <key> --server-addr http://localhost:3000 bookmarks add --link {}

You will have to change the port number in the command if it was remapped.

All done!

[MohamedBassem]

@rkraken thanks for the writeup!

I had a look at https://github.com/KillianKemps/wallabag-to-html and it seems like it converts it to the netscape format which hoarder suppots natively. So once you export from wallabag and run the ruby script to convert it, I'd recommend importing it from the user settings page instead. The benefit of this over using the CLI is that if you import it from the web app, hoarder will carry forward your tags, titles, and created At dates.

[rkraken]

Hi @MohamedBassem - I actually did try to import the html file but got an error. If I remember it was something about not being bookmarks format. Just updated my post.

It would have been nice to keep all my tags, but on the other hand, I guess it will force me to do look through all my stuff and do some well overdue house cleaning.