Favorites
I want to make a script that gets all my favorite links (from the map favorites) and places them in a database. My question is: How do i get the url and urlname from the .url files in the favorites directory?????
What scripting language should i use?
Can anybody help me with this?
Thanks
mairving posted this at 14:55 — 1st May 2001.
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I would first put them on a web page and then you should be able to parse them from there. To do this:
Open Internet Explorer
Click File/Import and Export/Next/Export Favorites
They will be exported to a file called bookmarks.htm. There is some MS propietary code in the HTML, mostly referencing the date you last visited this site. You will probably need to clean that up. Once you have this html, go to Hotscipts.com or one of the other script places and look for a script that will parse the html into a database.
Mark Irving
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