{"id":577,"date":"2022-04-11T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T10:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/?p=577"},"modified":"2022-04-11T11:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T10:33:40","slug":"how-to-export-safaris-reading-list-into-other-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2022.vandragt.com\/technology\/how-to-export-safaris-reading-list-into-other-services\/","title":{"rendered":"How to export Safari’s Reading List into other services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m always collecting interesting links to read later, but like to try out a bunch of services. It’s very easy to add links to Safari’s reading list (particulary on iOS), so I used it quite a bit. Now I’ve switched to Pocket, I’d like to get those links out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing you might not know is that Reading List items are stored as bookmarks. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pocket can import browser bookmarks<\/a>, but you might not want to import non Reading List items. This is how you do that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step by step<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. In Safari, File > Export > Bookmarks. Save all your bookmarks, this is the disaster recovery backup.<\/li>
  2. Delete all your non-reading list items.<\/li>
  3. Export the bookmarks again, as reading-list.html<\/code>. Delete them from Safari.<\/li>
  4. Import the reading-list bookmark file into Pocket.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    If you use Safari for regular bookmarks, restore the browser bookmarks without the reading list items:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Import the bookmarks you exported in step 1. <\/li>
    2. Delete your reading list items.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Bonus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      If you have other browsers with bookmarks you want to add to your reading list, you can use the same idea to get them into pocket, using Safari as a way to prune any bookmarks you don’t want to import.<\/p>\n

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      I’m always collecting interesting links to read later, but like to try out a bunch of services. It’s very easy to add links to Safari’s reading list (particulary on iOS), so I used it quite a bit. Now I’ve switched to Pocket, I’d like to get those links out. The thing you might not know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53,23,52,50],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bookmarks","tag-macos","tag-pocket","tag-safari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}