Import from Pocket: Pocket now mails you zipped CSV files

[daniel-l]

After being unable to export my pocket saves with their export tool (way more than the tool's limit of 5000 saves) I contacted the Pocket support. They then revamped the export tool: upon requesting an export they now mail you a zip file which contains csv files, each containing 10.000 pocket saves + the first row containing the column's titles.

Hoarder's import tool still expects Pocket's old html format; this needs to be updated.

The csv files are comma separated and formatted like this:

title,url,time_added,cursor,tags,status
Hoarder App,https://github.com/hoarder-app,1728576752,7187623980,,unread
"hoarder-app/hoarder: A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search",https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder,1728576752,7187623980,opensource|withÄumlaut|with space,unread
Some Website Title,"https://somewebsite.com/with,commas,in,the,url",1728576752,7187623980,,unread

Multiple tags are separated by the pipe symbol "|". Tags can contain german umlauts (e.g. äÄöÖüÜ) and spaces (see example above). If some part of the saved item (e.g. title, url) contains a comma, the whole part is enclosed in quotation marks (again, see examples above).

[jacobslusser]

I'll note that the Pocket website still says the export will be in HTML format, but the file you actually receive is a .csv in a .zip as described by @daniel-l. It took me a while to figure out that I wasn't doing something wrong -- it was Pocket that changed.

[daniel-l]

Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't quite sure whether there was a threshold of saved websites below which Pocket still generates the old HTML format or now always sends out zipped csv files vie e-mail. I guess it's latter. Here's a full quote of the mentioned support ticket which explains the new process:

I’m happy to let you know that our developers have updated the export tool! You can now export your Pocket data without any size limitations here: https://getpocket.com/export

When you initiate the export, a zip archive will be sent to your Pocket email. If you’ve previously requested an export for your lists, please try again now.

During the export, you will be provided with a tracking ID. If you don’t receive the export after 30 days, please share this ID with us, and we'll be happy to assist you further.

[Austinzveare]

I just set up Hoarder with the intention of importing from Pocket and just found this issue. Is there a way to import the CSV Pocket sends?

[fingon]

Not officially. I ran a shell command to add links and then produced sql with Python which updates create time and archive flag. Tags I do not use much so I left them for later.

[MohamedBassem]

I can't seem to export an export with multiple tags, can someone show me how they export a bookmark with multiple tags? What's the delimiter used between the tags?

[daniel-l]

See the example in my initial post. The delimiter is the pipe symbol ("|"):
tag1|tag with spaces|another tag

Edit: sorry, just saw that you found that yourself and already implemented it 🙂