I have a very large number of bookmarks in Google Chrome. I want to transfer all of them to a windows folder, so that each bookmark will be a shortcut to a website (I want a list of shortcuts, just like any list of regular applications shortcuts). I also would like to preserve the bookmark's name and icon.
I searched for a way to achieve my goal, but all I could find is to either manually Create application shortcuts in Chrome, or to manually drag & drop links from the HTML file exported from the bookmarks in the Chrome Bookmark manager to a folder.
Since there's no easy solution (AFAIK), I thought about achieving it in another way.
Basically, what I have, is an HTML file called bookmarks.html (created by the Export bookmarks to HTML file feature in the Organize menu inside the Bookmark Manager. It's a long list of links (<a>s) - I have more than 250 bookmarks.
I can extract the data I need from the file easily, probably with an XML Parser, though it's possible even with regex, because the structure is known and is the same throughout the whole file:
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<DT><A HREF="http://data.stackexchange.com/" ADD_DATE="1342120101" ICON="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0......">Stack Exchange</A>
<DT><A HREF="http://www.istockphoto.com/" ADD_DATE="1285715116" ICON="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0.......">Web Design</A>
<DT><A HREF="http://icons.mysitemyway.com/" ADD_DATE="1287435657" ICON="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0........">Ico.etc</A>
<DT><A HREF="http://www.shutterstock.com/" ADD_DATE="1285715294" ICON="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0.....">Shutterstock</A>
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The problem is that I don't know how to create a script that would take the data - i.e URL, icon (in base64), and name - and make Windows URL shortcuts using that data. I know of few VB scripts that can create a custom shortcut, but not multiple (well, about 300) shortcuts at once.