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title: "How to export bookmarks from any browser"
description: "Where the export button hides in every browser, what you get, and how to turn the file into a spreadsheet if you need to."
source: https://savepad.app/blog/export-bookmarks
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[Blog](https://savepad.app/blog) · 12 April 2023

# How to export bookmarks from Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge

Where the export button hides in every browser, what you get, and how to turn the file into a spreadsheet if you need to.

*A bookmarks export opened as a table of titles, links, folders and dates*

Every browser can export your bookmarks, and every browser hides the button somewhere different. The good news: they all write the same file, an HTML file in a format Netscape made up in the 90s, so whatever you export from one can go into any other.

## Chrome (and Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera)

1. Open the bookmark manager: **⌘ + Option + B** on a Mac, **Ctrl + Shift + O** on Windows. Or ⋮ menu → Bookmarks and lists → Bookmark manager.
2. Click the ⋮ in the top right of the bookmark manager (not the browser’s own ⋮, the one inside the page).
3. **Export bookmarks.**

You get a file called something like `bookmarks_18_03_2023.html`. Brave, Vivaldi and Opera are all Chromium underneath and work the same way. Their bookmark manager lives at `brave://bookmarks` and friends.

## Safari (Mac)

1. **File → Export → Bookmarks…**
2. Save it. It’s called `Safari Bookmarks.html`.

Your Reading List comes along in the same file, in its own folder.

On an iPhone there’s no export at all. If you use iCloud, your iPhone bookmarks sync to Safari on your Mac, so export from there.

## Firefox

1. Open the Library: **⌘ + Shift + O** on a Mac, **Ctrl + Shift + O** on Windows.
2. Click **Import and Backup**.
3. **Export Bookmarks to HTML…**

The Backup option in the same menu makes a JSON file instead. That one only goes back into Firefox. Use the HTML.

## Edge

1. Go to `edge://favorites` (Edge calls them favorites).
2. Click the **⋯** at the top.
3. **Export favorites.**

## What’s in the file

Open it in a browser and it looks like a long list of links. Open it in a text editor and it looks like this:

*A single line from a bookmarks HTML export*

0805 · bookmarks.html

One bookmark, as every browser writes it: the link, the date you saved it (in seconds since 1970) and the title. Folders are headings around groups of these.

Folders come across. Tags come across from Firefox and some bookmark apps, as a `TAGS` attribute. What doesn’t come across: favicons (mostly), anything you wrote about the link, and the page itself. It’s a list of addresses. If the page is gone, the bookmark is gone.

## Turning it into a spreadsheet

If you want to clean up bookmarks in a spreadsheet, or just count how bad it’s got, you need a CSV. We made a free [bookmarks converter](https://savepad.app/free-tools/bookmarks-converter) that turns the HTML file into CSV, JSON or Markdown. It runs in your browser, so the file never gets uploaded anywhere.

## Moving to another browser or app

Every browser has an import that takes this exact file: look for **Import bookmarks** in the same menu you exported from. Bookmark apps take it too. Savepad [imports it](https://savepad.app/docs/import-from-other-apps) with your folders as folders, then fetches every page again so you get a preview, a snapshot and text you can search.

If you’re moving because your bookmarks are a mess, read [how to organize them](https://savepad.app/blog/how-to-organize-bookmarks) before you import. Moving 1,200 links you don’t need into a nicer app still leaves you with 1,200 links you don’t need.

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## Read these next

- [How to organize your bookmarks so you can find them again: Bookmarks bar at 400 links and no idea what's in it? Here's how to sort them once, keep them sorted, and actually find the thing you saved.](https://savepad.app/blog/how-to-organize-bookmarks)
- [How to export your X (Twitter) bookmarks before you lose them: X doesn't give you an export button for bookmarks. Here are the ways that actually work, what each one gets you, and where to put them afterwards.](https://savepad.app/blog/export-x-bookmarks)
- [How to organize screenshots on a Mac (and get them off your desktop): Move screenshots out of your desktop, name them sensibly, sort the backlog, and make them searchable by what's in them. Settings, shortcuts and two Terminal lines.](https://savepad.app/blog/organize-screenshots-mac)