Comments on: Extracting bookmark icons (favicons) from Firefox

By: Arturic

Arturic — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:49:07 +0000

Wonderful Script!

I’m still running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (Just one more month till 9.10 Karmic, yeah!) I installed BeautifulSoup from Synaptic, used the script as described and worked perfectly, I only got a couple errors from filenames being too long (from bad websites giving huge page titles, definitively not the scrip’s fault), I manually edited the bookmarks file and the script did it’s magic.

python 2.5.2
python-beautifulsoup 3.0.4-1build1

THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!

By: Mike Belsky

Mike Belsky — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:14:47 +0000

Or, using Firefox, open the bookmark (actually load the page), Tools > Page Info
Media
scroll through the list to the onethat ends in /favicon.ico

on bottom of widow click “save as”
save your icon!

By: lionelb

lionelb — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:24:55 +0000

help !

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “extract.py”, line 12, in
print tag.string
File “C:\Program Files\Python\lib\encodings\cp850.py”, line 12, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character u’\u2019′ in position
53: character maps to

By: Innovative1

Innovative1 — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:48:18 +0000

Don’t worry about it man. I uninstalled 3.0.1 and installed 2.6.2 and it worked fine. Thanks for this great script! I have been looking for something like this for a long time!

By: Innovative1

Innovative1 — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:21:49 +0000

Just FYI, the carrot (^) is located under the ‘g’ of tag.string on the error. I don’t know if there is any significance.

By: Innovative1

Innovative1 — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:16:23 +0000

i tried this using Python 3.0.1 and BeautifulSoup 3.1.0.1 and I get “invalid syntax” at line 12 print tag.string
^

By: gooli

gooli — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:31:57 +0000

Copying BeautifulSoup into the same directory as extract.py should work. By running ‘python extract.py’ I meant opening a command window (Start -> Run -> cmd), going to the directory where you have the extract.py script (using the cd command) and then typing ‘python extract.py’. That should work, let me know if it doesn’t.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:02:15 +0000

I’m going to ask a couple of even dumber questions!…
1) I’ve installed Python and downloaded BeautifulSoup. It doesn’t seem to have an installer so at present the extracted files are sitting in the same file as extract.py Is this correct?
2) I’ve created extract.py and copied bookmarks.html to the same folder but I don’t know how to run ‘python extract.py’ I started Python which opens a command window and typed “Python C:\Users\Linda….extract.py” and the syntax is invalid. Can you explain (in words of one syllable!) exactly what to do?!!
Sorry for being a pain and thanks for providing the code to enable icon extractions. :)
Regards,
Linda

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:46:57 +0000

Thank you! Downloading now, I’ll let you know how it goes. :)

By: gooli

gooli — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:50:36 +0000

You’ll need to install Python from http://www.python.org (version 2.6 should do just fine) and install BeautifulSoup from http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/. You’ll need to create a text file called extract.py and copy the code in the post into it. You’ll need to copy the bookmarks.html file from the Firefox profile to the place where you created extract.py. Now you can run it using “python extract.py” snd you should get the icons in the same directory.