platform/import/browser-import

Classes

BrowserImporter

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:105

Finds the profiles of other browsers on this computer and imports their bookmarks, history and open tabs. It reads copies of the databases, so a browser that is open keeps working, and it never writes to another browser’s files.

Constructors

Constructor

new BrowserImporter(target, environment): BrowserImporter

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:113

Parameters

target

ImportTarget

Receives the bookmarks and history.

environment

ImportEnvironment

Where to look.

Returns

BrowserImporter

Methods

findBrowsers()

findBrowsers(): BrowserProfile[]

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:119

The profiles of other browsers, Chromium-based browsers first.

Returns

BrowserProfile[]

importBrowser()

importBrowser(id, kinds, labels): ImportResult

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:136

Imports from a profile that findBrowsers found. Bookmarks go into a new folder of the other bookmarks, which replaces the folder of an earlier import of the same profile. Open tabs are returned, for the browser process to open.

Parameters

id

string

The profile’s id.

kinds

ImportKinds

What to import.

labels

ImportLabels

Folder titles.

Returns

ImportResult

Interfaces

BrowserProfile

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:8

A profile of another browser that the import can read.

Properties

browser

readonly browser: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:12

The browser, such as “Google Chrome”.

id

readonly id: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:10

Identifies the profile in later calls; the import only reads profiles it found itself.

profile

readonly profile: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:14

The profile’s name in that browser.

tabs

readonly tabs: boolean

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:16

Whether the browser keeps its open tabs in a form the import reads.

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ImportedWindow

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:38

A window of open tabs to open again.

Properties

active

readonly active: number

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:41

Index of the tab that was active.

tabs

readonly tabs: readonly object[]

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:39

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ImportEnvironment

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:53

Where the import looks for other browsers.

Properties

appData?

readonly optional appData?: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:57

%APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows.

configHome?

readonly optional configHome?: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:60

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux.

home

readonly home: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:55

localAppData?

readonly optional localAppData?: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:58

platform

readonly platform: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:54

temp

readonly temp: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:62

A folder for copies of the databases, which their browsers may hold open.

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ImportKinds

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:20

What to import.

Properties

bookmarks

readonly bookmarks: boolean

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:21

history

readonly history: boolean

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:22

tabs

readonly tabs: boolean

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:23

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ImportLabels

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:27

Titles of the folders that the import creates, in the language of the browser’s UI.

Properties

folder

readonly folder: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:29

The folder that holds the imported bookmarks, such as “Imported from Firefox”.

menu

readonly menu: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:32

mobile

readonly mobile: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:34

other

readonly other: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:33

toolbar

readonly toolbar: string

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:31

Firefox’s bookmarks toolbar, menu, other bookmarks and mobile bookmarks.

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ImportResult

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:45

What an import did. Data that could not be read is named in failed.

Properties

bookmarks

readonly bookmarks: number

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:46

failed

readonly failed: readonly ("history" | "bookmarks" | "tabs")[]

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:49

history

readonly history: number

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:47

windows

readonly windows: readonly ImportedWindow[]

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:48

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ImportTarget

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:66

Where the profile database receives imported data.

Methods

importBookmarks()

importBookmarks(folderTitle, tree, source): number

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:71

Adds bookmarks in a folder of the other bookmarks, in place of the folder of an earlier import from the same source; returns how many there were.

Parameters

folderTitle

string

tree

readonly ImportedBookmark[]

source

string

Returns

number

importHistory()

importHistory(visits): number

Defined in: app/src/platform/import/browser-import.ts:73

Adds pages to the history; returns how many were new.

Parameters

visits

readonly ImportedVisit[]

Returns

number