Safari reading list to Devonthink BOOKMARK

[jadecricket]

Hey all,

I was looking to move my Safari reading list to Devonthink, but was thinking as bookmarks only; I was curious to know if anyone had created a simple automation that can take the reading list items and save them to DEVONthink as bookmarks? I did some searching in the forums for this, and this solution seems more complicated than i want:

Safari's Reading List to Devonthink

[size=85]–Rewritten, Jan 7, 2015[/size] ReadingList2Devonthink These lines of code aim at providing a tool to transfer articles stored/bookmarked in Safari’s Reading List to a Devonthink database without loosing metadata like when the document was saved in the Safari reading list and the original URL. The documents that end up in Devonthink are usually nicely formatted as the script uses the Instapaper paper service. The solution consists of a python script that gets necessary data out of Safa…

thanks for the help,

quin

[chrillek]

I doubt that Safari provides access to the reading list via scripting

[troejgaard]

I’m not aware of any direct access. But the reading list is stored in ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist , so if you can parse that file…

The method OP linked apparently uses a python script to do it. I know you’ve demonstrated reading plist files with the Obj-C bridge, but that’s still outside my skills. I managed to do it with the built-in tools, i.e. System Events’s Property List Suite.

I wasn’t sure if I should just post here directly, but I felt it made sense to give it its own thread:

Script (JXA): Import Safari Reading List (bookmarks & webarchives)

As far as I’m aware, Safari doesn’t have any direct scripting interface to access the reading list. Another user asked for a way to import the reading list in DEVONthink as bookmarks, and I’ve been wanting something similar. So I explored a bit and wrote this script. Safari’s Reading List is stored along with your bookmarks in ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist. The scripting dictionary for System Events includes a “Property List Suite” for reading .plist files. I never used it before, but it wo…

@jadecricket take a look, that should do what you want. It’s a single, self-contained script.

[jadecricket]

this is amazing - thank you for sharing this/creating it. i’m using DEVONthink 4 though, so i’ll have to wait until you upgrade so the script works there?