How to access Chrome's online bookmarks?

Question

Google Chrome allows you to sign in with your Google account to sync bookmarks and settings. Those bookmarks are then stored along with my account on their servers.

I want to create another client for the bookmarks. Please note that I am not interested in reading the local bookmarks file from hard disk. Instead I want to connect with the online servers directly.

So I need to access the same API as Chrome uses for synching. Is there a way to find out how to use that API?

Goines

I am not sure if helps or not but refer this and this. Hope you get the solution soon. – Vinous

Hi! Did you find solution for this? – Fellatio

@Zéiksz No, I think it is not possible. You could only look into source of Chromium and mimic the same behavior. – Goines

Answer 1

Whilst not using an API directly it allows you to query data from google bookmarks online (directly via REST call), and parse it yourself.

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/?output=xml&num=10000

I have included a link on how you may parse this data from the "Lite Bookmarks" chrome extension repository. http://www.google.com/bookmarks/?output=xml&num=10000

Plotkin

There is a different between Google bookmarks and chrome bookmark. The url provided is for the Google bookmark, not the Chrome. – Paradox

Besides Google Bookmarks is not the same thing as Google Chrome's bookmarks feature, Google Bookmarks itself is being discontinued by Google. – Dessiatine