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Export your Hacker News saved links to CSV using only Chrome console

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Re: Export your Hacker News saved links to CSV using only Chrome console

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Post by witty_username »

rafaelm wrote: post #7
msh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Up voting it.

I really wish there was a way to save a link for later reading without up voting. Sometimes I'm on my phone, see an interesting title I can't read right at the moment, but feel weird about upvoting it without actually reading it first. I've tried using read-it-later apps, but that works mostly for the articles and not the comments on HN which I find just as important.

Just bookmark the link.

Re: Export your Hacker News saved links to CSV using only Chrome console

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Post by amjd »

Good work OP! I have been meaning to write a python script to do this for a while now. However, entering the code for each page may soon get tedious. (I have 88 pages of saved links.) I'll probably get down to writing that script anyway and share here when I'm done with it. :)

Re: Export your Hacker News saved links to CSV using only Chrome console

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Post by thomaskcr »

CDokolas wrote: post #3
CDokolas wrote: post #2

Anyone find a way to do this in Firefox as well? It seems to work; except, it won't save the data in CSV. I'll try to get the raw JSON data...

got it working with the following: window.location=window.URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([localStorage.getItem('hn_saved')],{type:'x-whatever/x-backup'})); file name is weird (I'm a JS newb!)

Thanks for sharing, I figured there would be some type of issue with the download portion in other browsers. I'll see if that works in Chrome too and then maybe edit so more people can use it out of the box.

Re: Export your Hacker News saved links to CSV using only Chrome console

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Post by thomaskcr »

amjd wrote: post #12

Good work OP! I have been meaning to write a python script to do this for a while now. However, entering the code for each page may soon get tedious. (I have 88 pages of saved links.) I'll probably get down to writing that script anyway and share here when I'm done with it. :)

Thanks, there are obviously much better ways to do this (even something like GreaseMonkey over using the console), I was going more for an optimization of total time invested. It takes less than 5 seconds per page, so you could probably still swing doing 88 in less than 10 mins pretty easily.
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