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Chrome Extension Query: Multi-line URL Bookmark Import

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Molly Harris

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Jan 12, 2025, 10:08:55 AMJan 12
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I am seeking to know if there is a Chrome extension that circumvents the one flaw keeping me a Firefox user, present in Chrome's Bookmark Manager interface: when pasting multiple URLs (separated by line feeds) into the Bookmark Manager, Chrome combines them into a single bookmark. Firefox's Bookmark Manager, by contrast, correctly interprets line feeds and creates individual bookmarks for each URL.

This functionality gap creates extra work for users who need to import multiple URLs at once from an external source. Has anyone developed an extension to handle this? If not, would this be a feasible extension to create?

I did try submitting this in Chrome's issue tracker.  It died an obscure death.  (However, it looks more and more that Firefox is heading that way.)

Technical details:
- Input: Multiple URLs separated by line feeds in clipboard
- Current behavior: Chrome creates single bookmark containing all URLs
- Desired behavior: Create individual bookmarks for each URL, matching Firefox's functionality

Thank you for any guidance.

Patrick Kettner

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Jan 12, 2025, 10:24:23 AMJan 12
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Hi Molly

What was the chrome issue you filed? I couldn't find one with a quick search.

I am not aware of an extension that does this specifically, but it isn't really a feature that would be the sole focus of an extension - it could very well be a feature of any of the bookmarking extensions. It would be fairly trivial to implement - you just have some kind of input UI (in a popup, extension page, or even overriding the bookmark page), split the input URLs on linefeeds, and then call chrome.bookmarks.create() over each entry. 

patrick
 
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kg_17

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Jan 12, 2025, 12:43:39 PMJan 12
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One method I can suggest is to open a new window, use the extension 'Pasty' to open all URLs in the clipboard into new tabs, then press Ctrl+Shift+D to bookmark all tabs in the current window.

If Chrome allowed extensions to create bookmark context menu items ( https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41378677 ), then I imagine it would be very simple to make an extension that could read the clipboard and create multiple bookmarks at once inside a bookmark folder.

As was mentioned in another post, there are quite a few extensions that allow access to bookmarks through their popup, like 'Bookmarkie - Bookmarks in popup'.  If accessing bookmarks this way isn't too inconvenient, then perhaps find an extension you like and email the developer to see if they are willing to add a new feature to help you...
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