Is there a way to programmatically export Firefox bookmarks to and from XBEL?

Question

Firefox allows end user to export bookmarks to the XBEL bookmark exchange format. But I would like to programmatically:

1. Export some (not all) of the bookmarks and
2. Import xbel bookmarks into Firefox.

Preferably using a web language so that I can run the script from web server.

Can anyone suggest a solution?

Answer 1

Except by writing a firefox extension, I don't think you can do it. The only language that could have access to the navigator is JavaScript, and browser are designed to prevent JS from acessing them (for security purpose).