/home/[username]/.config/google-chrome/Default/

#!/usr/bin/python

# py-chrome-bookmarks
# 
# A script to convert Google Chrome's bookmarks file to the standard HTML-ish
# format.
#
# (c) Benjamin Esham, 2011.  See the accompanying README for this file's
# license and other information.

import json, sys, os, re

script_version = "1.1"

# html escaping code from http://wiki.python.org/moin/EscapingHtml

html_escape_table = {
	"&": "&",
	'"': """,
	"'": "'",
	">": ">",
	"<": "<",
	}

def html_escape(text):
	return ''.join(html_escape_table.get(c,c) for c in text)

def sanitize(string):
	res = ''
	string = html_escape(string)

	for i in range(len(string)):
		if ord(string[i]) > 127:
			res += '&#x%x;' % ord(string[i])
		else:
			res += string[i]

	return res

def html_for_node(node):
	if 'url' in node:
		return html_for_url_node(node)
	elif 'children' in node:
		return html_for_parent_node(node)
	else:
		return ''

def html_for_url_node(node):
	if not re.match("javascript:", node['url']):
		return '<dt><a href="%s">%s</a>\n' % (sanitize(node['url']), sanitize(node['name']))
	else:
		return ''

def html_for_parent_node(node):
	return '<dt><h3>%s</h3>\n<dl><p>%s</dl><p>\n' % (sanitize(node['name']),
			''.join([html_for_node(n) for n in node['children']]))

def version_text():
	old_out = sys.stdout
	sys.stdout = sys.stderr

	print "py-chrome-bookmarks", script_version
	print "(c) 2011, Benjamin Esham"
	print "https://github.com/bdesham/py-chrome-bookmarks"

	sys.stdout = old_out

def help_text():
	version_text()

	old_out = sys.stdout
	sys.stdout = sys.stderr

	print
	print "usage: python py-chrome-bookmarks input-file output-file"
	print "  input-file is the Chrome bookmarks file"
	print "  output-file is the destination for the generated HTML bookmarks file"

	sys.stdout = old_out

# check for help or version requests

if "-v" in sys.argv or "--version" in sys.argv:
	version_text()
	exit()

if len(sys.argv) != 3 or "-h" in sys.argv or "--help" in sys.argv:
	help_text()
	exit()

# the actual code here...

in_file = os.path.expanduser(sys.argv[1])
out_file = os.path.expanduser(sys.argv[2])

try:
	f = open(in_file, 'r')
except IOError, e:
	print >> sys.stderr, "py-chrome-bookmarks: error opening the input file."
	print >> sys.stderr, e
	exit()

j = json.loads(f.read())
f.close()

try:
	out = open(out_file, 'w')
except IOError, e:
	print >> sys.stderr, "py-chrome-bookmarks: error opening the output file."
	print >> sys.stderr, e
	exit()

out.write("""<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' />
<title>Bookmarks</title>
<h1>Bookmarks</h1>

<dl><p>

<dl>%(bookmark_bar)s</dl>

<dl>%(other)s</dl>
"""
	% {'bookmark_bar': html_for_node(j['roots']['bookmark_bar']),
		'other': html_for_node(j['roots']['other'])})

out.close()

python convert.py Bookmarks /home/user/Dropbox/Bookmarks20132703.html

#!/bin/bash
date=`date +%F-%H-%M-%S`
/usr/bin/python /home/user/convert.py /home/user/.config/google-chrome/Default/ /home/user/Dropbox/bookmarks-$date.html

0-59 * * * * sh /home/user/backupbookmarks.sh

0-59 * * * * sh /home/user/backupbookmarks.sh