Like many, I use a password manager for all my web password. KeePass allows you to add custom icons to each entry, so I thought I would use the favicon that comes with each site. The problem is that, at least in FireFox, the icons are saved in the bookmarks file, base-64 encoded, so there is no easy way to get them. Also KeePass lists the names of the icon files, but doesn't seem to have a preview, so each icon needs to be properly named.
I use the code below to extract the icons, eliminate duplicates, and save each one to a properly named file in the current directory.
I apologize for using XML::Twig (again!), but that's the module I know best.
To get all the files, export your bookmarks in an empty directory, then run the code there.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Twig;
use MIME::Base64;
my $HEADER= "data:image/([^:]*);base64,"; # image header
# if not listed here the type is used as extension (eg png, or jpeg)
my %type2ext= ( 'x-icon' => 'ico');
my %seen; # used to avoid duplicates, both for sites and for icons
XML::Twig->new( twig_handlers => { 'dt/a[@icon]' => \&save_icon })
->parsefile_html( 'bookmarks.html');
sub save_icon
{ my( $t, $a)= @_;
my $url= $a->att('href');
my $site= url2name( $url);
return if( $seen{$site});
$seen{$site}=1;
my $icon= $a->att( 'icon');
return unless $icon=~ s{^$HEADER}{}; # skip if icon is not base-64
+ encoded
my $icon_type= $1;
return if( $seen{$icon});
$seen{$icon}=1;
my $ext= $type2ext{$icon_type} || $icon_type;
my $file= join '.', $site, $ext;
$icon= decode_base64( $icon);
warn "adding icon for $site ($icon_type) to $file\n";
open( my $out, '>:raw', $file) or die "cannot create file $file: $
+!";
print {$out} $icon;
}
# takes a full url and returns a short version of the site name
# eg http://http://perlmonks.org/?node=Newest%20Nodes => perlmonks
sub url2name
{ my( $url)= @_;
$url=~ s{^https?://}{}; # remove protocol
$url=~ s{^www.}{}; # no need for the www. bit
$url=~ s{/.*$}{}; # keep only the site name
$url=~ s{\.[^.]*$}{}; # ermove the tld
return $url;
}
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