Feature Request: Raindrop.io import

[th]

Type

• General question or discussion
• Propose a brand new feature
• Request modification of existing behavior or design

What is the problem that your feature request solves

Importing Raindrop.io bookmarks.

Describe the ideal specific solution you'd want, and whether it fits into any broader scope of changes

I would like to be able to import bookmarks from raindrop. I have tried the Netscape HTML parser, but it does not add tags. Maybe it could just use tags or tag attributes, I don't think there could be problems with other programs using those attributes for anything else.

It's not part of the original Netscape HTML specification, but since many tools export in Netscape HTML format, and also offer tagging, I'd expect parsing out tags attributes ("tag="foo,bar") to help quite a few tools.

What hacks or alternative solutions have you tried to solve the problem?

I've tried to transform the export using a quick Python script to JSON, but ran into #1347

I gave up for the time being.

How badly do you want this new feature?

• It's an urgent deal-breaker, I can't live without it
• It's important to add it in the near-mid term future
• It would be nice to have eventually

If you never get around to implementing it, that's totally fair! It's only a suggestion.

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• I'm willing to contribute dev time / money to fix this issue
• I like ArchiveBox so far / would recommend it to a friend
• I've had a lot of difficulty getting ArchiveBox set up

I'm attaching an example export file.

raindrop.txt

[jimwins]

Pinboard's Netscape HTML version also adds a TAGS attribute that is comma-separated tags. The netscape_html parser is regex-based, maybe it would make sense to use Beautiful Soup for more resilient/flexible parsing, which could then also be used by the other HTML-based parsers.