Chrome Reading List export

#javascript

The easiest way to export the chrome reading list is to use takeout.google.com and to export the Chrome details. On my Google workspace account, this wasn't possible.

Instead, I navigated to chrome://sync-internals/ on the sync node browser tab and ran this javascript code in the console:



[
  ...$("#sync-node-tree")
    .shadowRoot.querySelector("#tree-item-autogen-id-17")
    .shadowRoot.querySelectorAll(".leaf"),
].map((row) => row.detail.payload);

(The shadowRoot has its own query selector function separate from the window of the console.)

Then, I right clicked the result to paste it into a text editor and save as a json file

Here's a sample of what you can expect to get:

The following is one particular chrome reading list item



{
    "CLIENT_TAG_HASH": "xxxxbEkAs=",
    "CTIME": "2022-07-25 14:41:44 +03",
    "ID": "sZ:ADqtAZw/jKp+WHaGmzqqSHy/YRNDZvdUo0doOqiQFaIMf0Yo59vheTu0WKfrimEtw+TaNyZJxSpEzC1wpOhS6r5qtfZP1kywYw==",
    "MTIME": "2022-07-25 14:41:44 +03",
    "NAME": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Reporting_API",
    "NON_UNIQUE_NAME": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Reporting_API",
    "ORIGINATOR_CACHE_GUID": "",
    "ORIGINATOR_CLIENT_ITEM_ID": "",
    "PARENT_ID": "",
    "SERVER_DEFINED_UNIQUE_TAG": "",
    "SPECIFICS": {
        "reading_list": {
            "creation_time_us": "1658749304297842",
            "entry_id": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Reporting_API",
            "estimated_read_time_seconds": "0",
            "first_read_time_us": "0",
            "status": "UNREAD",
            "title": "Reporting API - Web APIs | MDN",
            "update_time_us": "1658749304297842",
            "update_title_time_us": "1658749304297842",
            "url": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Reporting_API"
        }
    },
    "metadata": {
        "acked_sequence_number": "2",
        "client_tag_hash": "3ewNy9zDJ7HvgpPTJfkN1DbEkAs=",
        "creation_time": "1658749304297",
        "is_deleted": false,
        "modification_time": "1658749304299",
        "sequence_number": "2",
        "server_id": "Z:ADqtAZw/jKp+WHaGmzqqSHy/YRNDZvdUo0doOqiQFaIMf0Yo59vheTu0WKfrimEtw+TaNyZJxSpEzC1wpOhS6r5qtfZP1kywYw==",
        "server_version": "1658749304544398",
        "specifics_hash": "eb+IzTHvIE0GMJ0az8W4a1nUlis="
    },
    "modelType": "Reading List"
}