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kafene/netscape-bookmark-parser
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Generic Netscape bookmark parser

v0.0.1(10y ago)43419↓66.7%23[2 issues](https://github.com/kafene/netscape-bookmark-parser/issues)MITPHP

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netscape-bookmark-parser
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[](#netscape-bookmark-parser)

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About
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[](#about)

This library provides a generic `NetscapeBookmarkParser` class that is able of parsing Netscape bookmark export files.

The motivations behind developing this parser are the following:

- the [Netscape format](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753582%28v=vs.85%29.aspx)has a very loose specification: no [DTD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_type_definition)nor [XSL stylesheet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL)to constrain how data is formatted
- software and web services export bookmarks using a wild variety of attribute names and values
- using standard SAX or DOM parsers is thus not straightforward.

How it works:

- the input bookmark file is trimmed and sanitized to improve parsing results
- the resulting data is then parsed using [PCRE](http://www.pcre.org/) patterns to match attributes and values corresponding to the most likely:
    - attribute names: `description` vs. `note`, `tags` vs. `labels`, `date` vs. `time`, etc.
    - data formats: `comma,separated,tags` vs. `space separated labels`, UNIX epochs vs. human-readable dates, newlines & carriage returns, etc.
- an associative array containing all successfully parsed links with their attributes is returned

Example
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[](#example)

Script:

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