fbx.py is a command-line utility that reads the Firefox places.sqlite database and writes a HTML file listing the saved bookmarks.
This program borrows from the earlier firefox-places utility.
If no command-line arguments are given, the common location for Firefox profiles is searched and the most recently modified places.sqlite file is used. The default output file is named Firefox-bookmarks-*hostname*-*date_time*.html and is written to the user's Desktop folder.
There are additional options for writing to a SQLite database file instead of creating HTML files. This affords gathering bookmarks from multiple hosts. The database file can then be used as the source for generating the HTML output.
usage: fbx [-h] [--profile PROFILE] [--places-file PLACES_FILE]
[--asof-mtime] [--output-name OUTPUT_FILE]
[--output-folder OUTPUT_FOLDER] [--by-date] [--md]
[--output-sqlite OUTPUT_DB] [--host-name HOST_NAME]
[--update] [--from-sqlite SOURCE_DB]
Exports Firefox bookmarks to a single HTML file.
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--profile PROFILE Path to the Firefox profile folder.
--places-file PLACES_FILE
Path to a specific version of the 'places.sqlite'
file. Overrides the '--profile' options.
--asof-mtime Use the modified time of the 'places.sqlite' file for
the 'as of' date-time listed in the output files.
--output-name OUTPUT_FILE
Name of the output HTML file.
--output-folder OUTPUT_FOLDER
Name of the folder in which to create the output HTML
file.
--by-date Also produce an output file listing bookmarks by date-
added (most recent first). The name of the output file
will be the same as the main output file with
'-bydate' added to the file name.
--md Also produce a Markdown file listing the bookmarks The
name of the output file will be the same as the HTML
output file with a '.md' suffix. If the --by-date
switch is used, a separate Markdown file by date
(oldest first) is produced.
--output-sqlite OUTPUT_DB
Name of the SQLite database file to produce instead of
HTML files. This overrides the --output-name and --by-
date options, but still uses the --output-folder
option. If the database file already exists, new data
is appended (but only if from a different host).
--host-name HOST_NAME
Use a specified host name, instead of the current
machine's host name. This is useful when reading data
from a copy of a 'places.sqlite' file taken from
another machine.
--update Update SQLite output database with the data from the
specified 'places.sqlite' file. This is required if
you want to insert (replace) data from a host that is
already in the database.
--from-sqlite SOURCE_DB
Name of a SQLite database, previously created by
fbx.py, from which to get the list of bookmarks for
producing the HTML output files. This must be the full
path to the file (unless it is in the current
directory)