Loads a Firefox Bookmark export file and writes the titles and urls in a folder structure

bookmarkToFolders.py

import json
import string
from pathlib import Path
import sys

if len(sys.argv) != 3:
  print(f'Usage: {sys.argv[0]} bookmarkfile.json outputPathBase')
  exit()

data = json.load(open(sys.argv[1],'r'))

outputdir = Path(sys.argv[2])

whitelist = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '_-,. '

def to_safe(s):
    return ''.join(i for i in s if i in whitelist)

def process_folder(node, path: Path):
    ending = '.md' if not node.get('children') else ''
    out = path / (to_safe(node['title']) + ending)
    if not node.get('children'):
        if node.get('uri'):
            out.write_text(f"# {node['title']}\n{node['uri']}")
    else:
        out.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
        for i in node['children']:
            process_folder(i, out)

process_folder(data, outputdir)