Exporting bookmarks

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After iCloud helpfully synchronized my Safari bookmarks with an old backup, I wound up with multiple copies of every bookmark. So I cleverly imported them to DTPO and let it find all the duplicates. Now, after deleting the duplicates, I want to export the bookmarks back to Safari. But how?

Safari will only import an HTML file with a simple list of links. (If you use File>Export Bookmarks… in Safari, you will see the format it needs for importing.) It will not import a Table of Contents, because that is entirely DT x-links. It will not import a folder full of webloc files. It will not import an OPML, which is the only way I can export a list of HTML links.

I have searched the help documentation and the forum without success. Is there maybe a way to script this?

PS Here is a sample of the file I need from DTPO:

<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
	<HTML>
	<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
	<Title>Bookmarks</Title>
	<H1>Bookmarks</H1>
	<DT><H3 FOLDED>Favorites</H3>
	<DL><p>
		<DT><A HREF="https://read.amazon.com/">Kindle Cloud Reader</A>
		<DT><A HREF="https://www.filemaker.com/help/14/fmp/en/">FMP 14 Help </A>
		<DT><H3 FOLDED>Genealogy</H3>
		<DL><p>
			<DT><A HREF="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/33384482/family">Ancestry.com</A>
			<DT><A HREF="https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Family_History_Library">Family History Library</A>

And so on…

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What you’ve posted isn’t complete enough to match, as it’s composed of nested definition lists. If you have a raw list of Bookmark files in DEVONthink, it’s possible to script generating the links in HTML format but not Bookmarks groups, like “Genealogy”.

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As you say, after the header this is simply a nested list of folders (groups) and bookmark links. The folder template I need looks like this: ```

Folder Title

{{link lines and subordinate folders}}

```and the bookmark link lines look like this: ```

Link Title

In comparison, if I export an OPML file, I get exactly the same pattern of nested list. The folders look like this:

{{link lines and subordinate folders}}

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I’d like to see your code on that.

Scripting it to create a valid Bookmark file is pretty trivial. My point was, if you just have a ton of loose Bookmarks, there would be no H3 folder information to process. So you would have a valid Bookmarks file but they wouldn’t be in groups.

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