A programmer's tale

Importing bookmarks into eZ publish

August 10th, 2006

I’m planning to write a script for importing my bookmarks into an eZ publish site. Simpy is a great service (searching is based on Apache Lucene) but it is often crawling under heavy traffic when I really need it. In the meantime my Firefox bookmarks list keeps growing and growing, altough I hardly can’t find anything back in it
I found out that it’s not easy to parse the bookmarks file of Firefox with a SAX or DOM parser, since it’s not well-formed. I tried to do a cleanup with HTML Tidy but that really messed up the folder structure. I decided to first use the Bookmarks Synchronizer extension for Firefox to export the whole bookmarks list to XBEL. Afterwards I’ll import the XBEL data into an eZ publish content tree. The hierarchical folder structure will not remain intact, since I prefer tags.
Contact me if you have any remarks or if you’d like to participate in development.

Entry Filed under: Firefox,eZ Publish