Import Brave Bookmarks from the Brave Browser

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Dear Brave Community,

My computer crashed. I refreshed my OS (Linux), but that removed Brave. So I reinstalled Brave. Now I want my bookmarks back. They are in a non-html file at

~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Bookmarks

There is no extension on this file name and it is not an html file. When I open the file, it looks like this:

“checksum”: “long number here”,
“roots”: {
“bookmark_bar”: {
“children”: [ {
“children”: [ {
“children”: [ {
“children”: [ {
“date_added”: “long number here”,
“guid”: “long number here”,
“id”: “1234”,
“name”: “NameOfFirstBookmark”,
“type”: “url”,
“url”: “https://url/to/the/page”
}, {
“date_added”: “long number here”,
“guid”: “long number here”,
“id”: “4321”,
“name”: “NameOfSecondBookmark”,
“type”: “url”,
“url”: “https://url/to/the/page”
}
… followed by similar syntax defining the rest of my bookmarks.

When I try to import the bookmarks, I can select the file. Brave gives me a reassuring blue filled circle with a black check mark with a message, “Your bookmarks and settings are ready.” I click on Done. Nothing happens and my bookmarks do not appear.

So how do I import my Brave book marks into my Brave browser?

Thanks,

Joe

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Hi

Try this tool: It will convert the bookmarks format to html format accepted by Brave or other browsers such as Opera.

Open the link below, drag your bookmarks (without extension) then save as html

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Sorry, this did not work. When I dragged the file to the linked page, I got the following error message:

Error! The file is invalid. Try again!

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may be it is corrupt. Does it begin with

{
“checksum”:

NB: no space before {

What about bookmarks.bak? Do you see it?

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CerealLover,

It starts out with { carriage return, 3 spaces and “checksum”:

When I pasted into the forum text editor all of the leading spaces (indenting) was removed.

I also tried dragging Bookmarks.bak to the linked page and received the same error.

Joe

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Hi

This how it should look; check the begining and the end of the file only. Make a backup of the file, then make the begining and the end the same.

{
“checksum”:

…

“version”: 1
}

Below is a “bookmarks” (without .txt) I tested on the link given.

Bookmarks.txt (1.2 KB)

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